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Civil procedure

Pleadings, interlocutory applications, costs, limitation, and appeals.

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Civil procedure decisions

Result 268

[2024] SGHC(A) 21

Khoo Jee Chek v Lim Beng Tiong

Appellate Division of the High Court17 July 2024

Civil Procedure — Judgments and orders — Order for division of net sale proceeds between co-owners — Whether court was functus officio when ordering equitable accounting of co-owners’ contributions towards repayment of mortgage loan in division of net sale proceeds where judgment was previously rendered declaring their beneficial interests in co-owned property; Equity — Remedies — Equitable accounting — Accounting for contributions of co-owner towards repayment of mortgage loan in absence of prior agreement; Equity — Remedies — Equitable accounting — Accounting for sole occupation of property by co-owner by way of setting-off against interest element of mortgage payments

Result 270

[2024] SGHC 182

Farooq Ahmad Mann (in his capacity as the private trustee in bankruptcy of Li Hua) v Xia Zheng

General Division of the High Court15 July 2024

Civil Procedure — Injunctions — Mareva injunctions — Principles — “Real risk of dissipation” requirement — Applicability of balance of convenience test to Mareva injunctions; Civil Procedure — Injunctions — Proprietary injunctions — Principles; Insolvency Law — Avoidance of transactions — Transactions at an undervalue — Whether transfer of property pursuant to ancillary relief order capable of challenge as a transaction at an undervalue — Section 361 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (2020 Rev Ed)

Result 274

[2024] SGHC 170

Oon Swee Gek and others v Violet Oon Inc Pte Ltd and others and another matter

General Division of the High Court3 July 2024

Companies — Oppression — Remedies — Order requiring sale of shares in company by member to other members — Independent valuation of shares in company for compulsory sale; Civil Procedure — Costs — Quantum — Appendix G of Supreme Court Practice Directions 2021 — Costs guidelines for party-and-party costs for trials of commercial matters

Result 276

[2024] SGHC 164

Three Arrows Capital Ltd and others v Davies , Kyle Livingston and another

General Division of the High Court28 June 2024

Civil Procedure — Mareva injunctions — Whether threshold of good arguable case has been met by joint liquidators seeking freezing order; Civil Procedure — Mareva injunctions — Whether joint liquidators applying for freezing order demonstrated real risk of dissipation of assets by subject of freezing order; Civil Procedure — Mareva injunctions — Whether joint liquidators applying for freezing order without notice complied with duty to give full and frank disclosure of material information

Result 284

[2024] SGHC 143

Re Civelli, Carlo Giuseppe and another [ 2024] SGHC 143

General Division of the High Court31 May 2024

Civil Procedure — Witnesses — Whether the appointment of a private examiner to conduct a pre-trial examination is a step that can be taken by way of obtaining evidence for the purposes of domestic civil proceedings; Evidence — Witnesses — Attendance — Compelling attendance of witness to take evidence for foreign proceedings; International Law — Conventions — Obligations under the Hague Convention of 18 March 1970 on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters

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