Contract

Act CLA 1909

Civil Law Act 1909

Act CRTPA 2001

Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 2001

[2024] SGHC 264

VeriFone, Inc v Firemane Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 264

SGHC2024-10-21

Civil Procedure — Summary judgment — Applicable principles for grant or refusal of summary judgment; Contract — Contractual terms — Contracting party owing liability claiming set-off against sums due under settlement agreement — Whether contractual requisites...

[2024] SGHC 261

Tay Shing Lee Eileen v Liang Ting Pang Jeffrey [2024] SGHC 261

SGHC2024-10-16

Contract — Waiver — Waiver by election where contracting party elects between inconsistent contractual rights — Whether receipt of payments by one contracting party from another contracting party communicates clearly and unequivocally an election to abandon c...

[2024] SGHC 260

Dabbs, Matthew Edward v AAM Advisory Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 260

SGHC2024-10-14

Contract — Breach; Contract — Contractual terms; Contract — Illegality and public policy; Contract — Termination; Employment Law — Termination; Employment Law — Employers’ duties; Equity — Remedies — Account; Civil Procedure — Pleadings; Debt and Recovery — R...

[2024] SGCA(I) 7

Liberty Engineering Group Pte Ltd v Renault SAS [2024] SGCA(I) 7

SGCA(I)2024-10-08

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

[2024] SGHC 253

Xia Zheng v Lee King Anne [2024] SGHC 253

SGHC2024-10-07

Contract — Formation — Intention to create legal relations — Sham interest-free loan documents executed to give false impression of existence of loan agreement where parties never intended to create legal relations involving genuine loan arrangement; Contract...

[2024] SGHC(A) 29

Rajesh Harichandra Budhrani v INTL FCStone Pte Ltd and others [2024] SGHC(A) 29

SGHC(A)2024-09-24

Contract — Breach; Contract — Contractual terms; Contract — Duress — Illegitimate pressure; Contract — Undue influence; Tort — Misrepresentation — Fraud and deceit; Tort — Misrepresentation — Negligent misrepresentation

[2024] SGHC(A) 26

Seatrium New Energy Ltd (formerly known as Keppel FELS Ltd) v HJ Shipbuilding & Construction Co, Ltd (formerly known as Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co Ltd) [2024] SGHC(A) 26

SGHC(A)2024-09-16

Contract — Contractual terms — Whether party’s claim precluded by contractual term excluding liability; Contract — Contractual terms — Warranties — Whether latent defects that do not manifest or are not discovered during the warranty period are nonetheless ca...

[2024] SGHC(A) 27

Darsan Jitendra Jhaveri and others v Lakshmi Anil Salgaocar (suing as the Administratrix of the Estate of Anil Vassudeva Salgaocar) and another [2024] SGHC(A) 27

SGHC(A)2024-09-16

Contract — Illegality and public policy — Illegality under international and foreign law

[2024] SGHC 215

SECC Holdings Pte Ltd v Helios PV (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd ( Sinohydro Corp Ltd (Singapore Branch), garnishee) [2024] SGHC 215

SGHC2024-08-20

Choses in Action – Assignment; Contract — Formation — Intention to create legal relations; Contract — Formation — Certainty of terms; Contract — Formation — Acceptance

[2024] SGHC(I) 23

Transpac Investments Ltd v TIH Ltd [2024] SGHC(I) 23

SGHC(I)2024-08-20

Contract — Contractual terms — Express terms; Contract — Contractual terms — Implied terms; Equity — Estoppel — Duty to speak; Limitation of Actions — Particular causes of action — Contract

[2024] SGHC 206

BGC Partners (Singapore) Ltd and another v Sumit Grover [2024] SGHC 206

SGHC2024-08-13

Contract — Mistake — Non est factum; Contract — Contractual terms; Employment Law — Termination; Employment Law — Employers’ duties

[2024] SGCA 27

Tan Yew Huat v Sin Joo Huat Hardware Pte Ltd and another matter [2024] SGCA 27

SGCA2024-08-07

Companies — Winding up; Contract — Mistake — Mistake of fact

[2024] SGHC 200

Baizanis, Georgios v Snap Innovations Pte Ltd and another [2024] SGHC 200

SGHC2024-08-02

Agency — Implied authority of agent; Agency — Third party and principal’s relations — Tortious liability; Contract — Breach; Evidence — Admissibility of evidence; Evidence — Proof of evidence — Onus of proof

[2024] SGHC 179

Foreland Singapore Pte Ltd and another v IG Asia Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 179

SGHC2024-07-11

Banking — Statement of account — Verification clauses — Whether verification clause binding on issuer; Contract — Contractual terms — Force majeure clause; Contract — Contractual terms — Rules of construction — Whether force majeure event rendered compliance...

[2024] SGHC 174

Turms Advisors APAC Pte Ltd v Steppe Gold Ltd [2024] SGHC 174

SGHC2024-07-08

Contract — Contractual terms — Express terms; Contract — Contractual terms — Implied terms; Contract — Contractual terms — Rules of construction; Contract — Consideration; Contract — Variation — No oral modification clause; Agency — Rights of agent — Commissi...

[2024] SGHC 147

EBS Flow Control Ltd v Greene, Tweed & Co Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 147

SGHC2024-06-07

Contract — Contractual terms — Admissibility of Evidence; Contract — Contractual terms — Interpretation; Contract — Contractual terms — Incorporation by reference; Contract — Contractual terms — Unfair Contract Terms Act; Contract — Contractual terms — Implie...

[2024] SGHC 145

Banque de Commerce et de Placements SA, DIFC Branch and another v China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp Ltd (Shandong Energy International (Singapore) Pte Ltd, third party; Golden Base Energy Pte Ltd, fourth party) [2024] SGHC 145

SGHC2024-06-05

Banking — Branch bank — Whether representative office was branch bank — Whether plaintiff had standing to sue; Bills of Exchange and Other Negotiable Instruments — Letter of credit transaction — Whether fraud exception established — Whether representation mad...

[2024] SGHC(A) 18

Nalli Pte Ltd and others v Nalli Kuppuswami Chett i and Nalli Ramanathan (trading as Nalli Chinnasami Chetty) and another [2024] SGHC(A) 18

SGHC(A)2024-05-27

Contract — Contractual terms — Express terms — Interpretation of deeds of settlement; Intellectual Property — Trade marks and trade names — Infringement; Intellectual Property — Trade marks and trade names — Passing off — Misrepresentation

[2024] SGHC(A) 15

Axis Megalink Sdn Bhd and another v Far East Mining Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC(A) 15

SGHC(A)2024-05-10

Contract — Mistake — Unilateral mistake as to identity of contracting counterparty — Whether doctrine of mistaken identity extends to attributes of contracting counterparty; Contract — Misrepresentation — Rescission — Whether rescission is available in respec...

[2024] SGHC 121

Center for Competency-Based Learning and Development Pte Ltd v SkillsFuture Singapore Agency [2024] SGHC 121

SGHC2024-05-08

Contract — Discharge — Stipulated event — Innocent party entitled to terminate in event of breach of warranty or term of contract; Contract — Discharge — Stipulated event — Innocent party entitled to terminate if in its opinion the other party is guilty of gr...

[2024] SGHC 114

Fitzgerald, Ruth v Dulwich College (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 114

SGHC2024-05-03

Contract — Discharge — Anticipatory breach

[2024] SGHC(A) 13

TG Master Pte Ltd v Tung Kee Development (Singapore) Pte Ltd and another [2024] SGHC(A) 13

SGHC(A)2024-05-02

Civil Procedure — Appeals — New points; Land — Sale of land — Contract — Options to purchase; Contract — Remedies — Deposits; Contract — Remedies — Liquidated damages — Penalties; Civil Procedure — Pleadings; Civil Procedure — Payments into and out of court —...

[2024] SGHC 110

Wong Ben and others v The WatchFund Ltd and another [2024] SGHC 110

SGHC2024-04-30

Companies — Incorporation of companies — Lifting corporate veil; Contract — Breach — Repudiatory breach; Contract — Remedies — Specific performance; Contract — Remedies — Damages; Evidence — Admissibility of evidence — Hearsay; Tort — Misrepresentation — Frau...

[2024] SGHC 103

Chen Qiming v Huttons Asia Pte Ltd and others [2024] SGHC 103

SGHC2024-04-17

Tort — Misrepresentation — Fraud and deceit; Tort — Misrepresentation — Negligent misrepresentation; Contract — Formation — Certainty of terms; Statutory Interpretation — Construction of statute — Whether Estate Agents Act 2010 and subsidiary legislation conf...