Civil procedure

[2024] SGHC 67

La Comida Buds Bar & Bistro Pte Ltd v Layan Management Pte Ltd

General Division of the High Court14 March 2024

[2024] SGHC 65

DNG FZE v Pay Pal Pte Ltd

General Division of the High Court12 March 2024

Civil Procedure — Striking Out — Whether unless order breached; Civil Procedure — Striking Out — Whether striking out is proportionate response to breach of unless order

[2024] SGHC(A) 8

Ollech David v Horizon Capital Fund

Appellate Division of the High Court12 March 2024

Civil Procedure — Appeals — Leave — Permission to appeal against application to adduce further evidence; Civil Procedure — Summary judgment — Appeal against grant of summary judgment; Evidence — Presumptions — Presumption of similarity

[2024] SGHC 60

Re Eye-Biz Pte Ltd (in compulsory liquidation

General Division of the High Court8 March 2024

Insolvency Law — Winding up — Liquidator — Whether liquidator may be given leave to appoint solicitor; Civil Procedure — Inherent powers

[2024] SGHC 63

The Resolution and Collection Corp v Tsuneji Kawabe and others

General Division of the High Court8 March 2024

Civil Procedure — Discovery of documents — Specific discovery

[2024] SGHC(A) 7

Luckin Coffee Inc v Interactive Digital Finance Ltd and others

Appellate Division of the High Court5 March 2024

Civil Procedure — Appeals — Leave; Civil Procedure — Service — Leave for service out of jurisdiction

[2024] SGHCR 4

DFD v DFE and another

High Court Registrar1 March 2024

Civil Procedure — Disclosure of documents; Civil Procedure — Judgments and orders — Peremptory orders

[2024] SGHC 49

Hall, Jonathan Stuart v Rapyd Pte Ltd

General Division of the High Court23 February 2024

Civil Procedure — Privileges — Without prejudice privilege; Civil Procedure — Privileges — Disapplication of without prejudice privilege — Admission of liability; Civil Procedure — Privileges — Threshold for finding an oral admission of liability on disputed facts

[2024] SGHC 47

Axis Megalink Sdn Bhd v Far East Mining Pte Ltd

General Division of the High Court22 February 2024

Civil Procedure — Stay of execution of judgment pending appeal — Conditions to be imposed

[2024] SGHC(A) 6

Da Hui Shipping (Pte) Ltd (in creditors’ voluntary liquidation) v An Rong Shipping Pte Ltd (in liquidation

Appellate Division of the High Court19 February 2024

Civil Procedure — Appeals — Leave; Insolvency Law — Winding up — Company wound up — Whether permission is required to proceed with an appeal against the company where lower court previously granted permission to commence action or proceeding against the company — Section 133(1) Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (2020 Rev Ed)

[2024] SGHCR 3

Mitsui E&S Power Systems Inc v Neptun International Pte Ltd and another ( DBS Bank Ltd, non-party

High Court Registrar16 February 2024

Civil Procedure – Judgments and orders – Enforcement – Attachment of debts

[2024] SGHC 43

Yong Teck Chong v ERA Realty Network Pte Ltd and another

General Division of the High Court14 February 2024

[2024] SGHC(I) 6

Renault SAS v Liberty Engineering Group Pte Ltd and another matter

Singapore International Commercial Court14 February 2024

Civil Procedure — Pleadings; Contract — Contractual terms; Credit and Security — Guarantees and indemnities

[2024] SGHC 38

Envy Asset Management Pte Ltd (in liquidation) and others v Lau Lee Sheng and others

General Division of the High Court8 February 2024

Civil Procedure — Pleadings — Striking out; Civil Procedure — Pleadings — Amendment

[2024] SGHC 35

Lim Jen Lin v Energy Market Company Pte Ltd and others

General Division of the High Court6 February 2024

Civil Procedure — Striking out; Constitutional Law — Natural justice — Bias

[2024] SGHC 31

Lin Yueh Hung (as liquidators of CST South East Asia Pte Ltd (in members’ voluntary liquidation)) and another v Andreas Vogel & Partner, Rechtsanwaelte, AV & P Legal LLP and others

General Division of the High Court2 February 2024

Civil Procedure — Jurisdiction — Inherent; Contract — Ratification; Insolvency Law — Winding up — Proof of debt; Limitation of Actions — Particular causes of action — Contract

[2024] SGHC 26

Arbiters Inc Law Corp v Arokiasamy Steven Joseph (in his personal capacity and in his capacity as administrator of the estate of Salvin Foster Steven, the deceased) and another

General Division of the High Court31 January 2024

[2024] SGHC(A) 3

Pradeepto Kumar Biswas v Sabyasachi Mukherjee and another

Appellate Division of the High Court31 January 2024

Civil Procedure — Extension of time — Applicable legal principles for extension of time to file an application for permission to appeal — Prospect of success

[2024] SGHC 11

TA Private Capital Security Agent Ltd and another v UD Trading Group Holding Pte Ltd and another

General Division of the High Court31 January 2024

Civil Procedure — Pleadings — Striking out; Credit and Security — Guarantees and indemnities; Credit and Security — Performance bond

[2024] SGHC 20

Progress ABMS Pte Ltd v Progress Welded Mesh Sdn Bhd

General Division of the High Court29 January 2024

Civil Procedure — Summary judgment — Whether defendant had a real or bona fide defence to the claimant’s claim; Civil Procedure — Summary judgment — Effect of counterclaim — Whether a stay of execution of the summary judgment should be granted pending the trial of the counterclaim; Debt and Recovery — Right of set-off; Contract — Formation — Whether there was an oral contract; Tort — Conspiracy — Conspiracy by unlawful means

[2024] SGHC 21

Cheong Jun Yoong v Three Arrows Capital Ltd and others

General Division of the High Court26 January 2024

[2024] SGHC 16

Phoa Eugene (personal representative of the estate of Evelyn Phoa (alias Lauw Evelyn Siew Chiang), deceased and personal representative of the estate of William Phoa, deceased) v Oey Liang Ho (alias Henry Kasenda) (sole executor of the estate of Wirio Kasenda (alias Oey Giok Tjeng), deceased) and others

General Division of the High Court23 January 2024

Civil Procedure — Trial — Adducing fresh evidence after trial; Civil Procedure — Parties — Standing; Probate and Administration — Personal representatives

[2024] SGHC 14

Ang Hong Wei and others v Ang Teng Hai and another

General Division of the High Court19 January 2024

[2024] SGHC(A) 19

Darsan Jitendra Jhaveri and others v Lakshmi Anil Salgaocar (suing as the administratrix of the estate of Anil Vassudeva Salgaocar) and another

Appellate Division of the High Court17 January 2024