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Result 295

[2024] SGHC(I) 10

Navayo International AG and another v Ministry of Defence, Government of Indonesia

Singapore International Commercial Court22 April 2024

Arbitration — Enforcement — Application to set aside order granting leave to enforce an arbitral award in the same manner as a judgment of the court; Civil Procedure — Extension of time — Application for a retrospective extension of time to file an application to set aside an enforcement order; Civil Procedure — Service — Requirements for valid service of documents out of jurisdiction on a “State” within the meaning of the State Immunity Act 1979; Arbitration — Confidentiality — Application for redaction and sealing orders; Civil Procedure — Affidavits — Application for leave to file further affidavits

Result 296

[2024] SGHC(I) 8

Reliance Infrastructure Ltd v Shanghai Electric Group Co Ltd

Singapore International Commercial Court16 April 2024

Civil Procedure — Costs — Principles — Principles on assessment of costs for proceedings in Singapore International Commercial Court — Reasonableness and proportionality of costs — Disparity between quantum of costs estimates of parties; Civil Procedure — Costs — Principles — Principles on assessment of costs for proceedings in Singapore International Commercial Court — Reasonableness and proportionality of costs — Factors relevant to assessment of reasonableness and proportionality of costs awarded pursuant to Order 22 rule 3(2) of Singapore International Commercial Court Rules 2021

Result 298

[2024] SGHC 100

Lim Chee Seng v Phang Yew Kiat

General Division of the High Court12 April 2024

Civil Procedure — Pleadings — Claim on appeal inconsistent with case below — Whether prejudice caused to other party; Civil Procedure — Appeals — Claim on appeal inconsistent with case below — Whether prejudice caused to other party; Courts and Jurisdiction — Jurisdiction — Appellate — Appropriate degree of appellate intervention; Restitution — Failure of consideration — Total failure of consideration — Essential bargain between contracting parties — Whether benefits conferred were essential or incidental; Restitution — Failure of consideration — Whether failure of consideration total or partial — Whether incidental or collateral benefits can be disregarded

Result 301

[2024] SGHC 96

Third Eye Capital Corp v Pretty View Shipping SA and others

General Division of the High Court3 April 2024

Civil Procedure — Disclosure of documents — Riddick principle — Whether permission of court required to use documents; Civil Procedure — Disclosure of documents — Riddick principle — Whether balance of interest in favour of granting permission; Abuse of Process — Riddick principle — Whether proceedings for the enforcement of judgment debt were brought for a collateral purpose

Result 302

[2024] SGHC 92

COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers Co, Ltd v PT OKI Pulp & Paper Mills and others

General Division of the High Court28 March 2024

Arbitration — Restraint of proceedings — Foreign judicial; Arbitration — Agreement — Scope — Whether a stand-alone tort claim for damage done by shipowner/carrier to a trestle bridge owned by the cargo shipper is a dispute “arising out of or in connection with” the contract of carriage evidenced by bills of lading; Arbitration — Agreement — Scope — Whether alleged contractual defences contained in the bills of lading rendered the tort claim one “arising out of or in connection with” the contract of carriage evidenced by the bills of lading; Contract — Formation — Acceptance — Whether a solicitor’s proposal to enter into an exclusive jurisdiction agreement subject to the client’s final approval was an offer capable of acceptance; Civil procedure — Injunctions — Whether it was vexatious and oppressive for a limitation defendant to commence and/or prosecute foreign proceedings after limitation proceedings commenced in Singapore; Civil procedure — Injunctions — Whether an injunction should be granted to protect the court’s processes, jurisdiction and judgments

Result 310

[2024] SGHC 79

Victory International Holdings Pte Ltd v Borrelli , Cosimo and another and another matter

General Division of the High Court19 March 2024

Companies — Receiver and manager — Accounts — Whether receiver owes duty to account to mortgagor; Companies — Receiver and manager — Duties to mortgagor — Duties to chargor; Companies — Receiver and manager — Production of documents by receiver — Whether production of documents should be ordered — Whether production of documents determined by ownership or “need to know”; Civil Procedure — Costs — Taxation — Party requesting taxation neither client nor party chargeable — Party requesting taxation contractually liable to indemnify legal fees — Whether party liable to pay bill to party chargeable — Section 120(1) Legal Profession Act; Civil Procedure — Costs — Taxation — Allegation of overcharging — Party lacks control over legal fees — Whether special circumstances exist — Section 122 Legal Profession Act

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