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Tort

Negligence, defamation, nuisance, and other civil wrongs.

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Tort decisions

Result 103

[2024] SGHC 322

SW Trustees Pte Ltd (in compulsory liquidation) and another v Teodros Ashenafi Tesemma (also known as Tewodros Ashenafi) and others ( Teodros Ashenafi Tesemma (also known as Tewodros Ashenafi), third party

General Division of the High Court16 December 2024

Insolvency Law — Avoidance of transactions — Transactions at an undervalue — Value of consideration given; Insolvency Law — Avoidance of transactions — Transactions at an undervalue — Value of consideration received; Insolvency Law — Avoidance of transactions — Transactions at an undervalue — Remedies; Companies — Directors — Duties — Breach of director’s duties; Tort — Conspiracy — Unlawful means conspiracy; Insolvency Law — Winding up — Liquidator — Duties

Result 105

[2024] SGHC 293

Prometheus Marine Pte Ltd (in liquidation) v Pickering , Alan John and others

General Division of the High Court19 November 2024

Companies — Directors — Duties — Breaches; Evidence — Proof of evidence — Defendant elects to call no evidence — Whether applicable test for plaintiff to discharge essential elements of claim is prima facie case; Limitation of actions — Equity and limitation of actions — Directors breaching fiduciary duties — Whether limitation defence applies — Section 22 Limitation Act 1959; Tort — Conspiracy — Conspiracy by lawful means and unlawful means

Result 108

[2024] SGHC 277

ACE Spring Investments Ltd v Balbeer Singh Mangat and another

General Division of the High Court28 October 2024

Tort — Conspiracy — Unlawful act — Duress; Tort — Conspiracy — Unlawful act — Undue influence; Tort — Conspiracy — Unlawful act — Breach of fiduciary duties; Tort — Conspiracy — Unlawful act — Breach of fiduciary duties — Self-dealing; Tort — Conspiracy — Unlawful act — Unlawful reliance on a purported resolution to pass other resolutions; Tort — Conspiracy — Lawful act — Predominant intention to injure; Tort — Conspiracy — Combination; Tort — Conspiracy — Damages; Tort — Misrepresentation — Fraud and deceit

Result 110

[2024] SGHC 253

Xia Zheng v Lee King Anne

General Division of the High Court7 October 2024

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 — Implied contracts — Quantum meruit — Whether parties entered into contractual arrangement with implied term that nominee shareholder would be paid reasonable remuneration assessed on quantum meruit basis; Tort — Misrepresentation — Inducement — Whether representee was induced by false representation of fact to become nominee shareholder in company; Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumed resulting trusts — Presumption of trust arising where moneys advanced to purchase shares registered in legal name of non-paying party

Result 112

[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

Appellate Division of the High Court16 September 2024

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 caught by the warranty; Equity — Estoppel — Promissory estoppel; Tort — Negligence — Duty of care — Whether duty of care can be imposed in addition to a co-terminous contractual duty

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