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Trusts

Express, resulting, and constructive trusts and trustees' duties.

202 decisions

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Act TA 1967

Trustees Act 1967

Trusts decisions

[2026] SGHC 190

Fereydoon Mossanen and others v Julius Baer Trust Co (Singapore) Ltd

General Division of the High Court18 September 2026

Civil Procedure — Rules of court — Order 9 r 19(1) Rules of Court 2021 — Summary determination of questions of law or construction of documents; Civil Procedure — Rules of court — Order 9 r 25(3) Rules of Court 2021 — Order for issue of fact to be heard and decided separately; Powers — Exercise — Imputed exercise of powers doctrine; Powers — Exercise — When a power is validly exercised; Trusts — Express trusts — Implying term in trust deed; Trusts — Express trusts — Interpretation of terms in trust deed; Trusts — Protector — Whether term for protectors to resolve conflicts void and unenforceable

[2026] SGHC 185

Chander Agarwal v Lee Xiu Hui Felicia

General Division of the High Court9 September 2026

Contract — Intention to create legal relations; Restitution — Unjust enrichment; Tort — Misrepresentation — Fraud and deceit; Trusts — Constructive trusts

[2026] SGHC 178

Parastate Labs, Inc v Wang Li and others

General Division of the High Court1 September 2026

Equity — Dishonest assistance; Equity — Fiduciary relationships — When arising; Equity — Fiduciary relationships — Duties; Trusts — Express trusts — Certainties; Trusts — Accessory liability; Tort — Misrepresentation — Fraud and deceit; Tort — Conspiracy

[2026] SGHC 167

Ho Soo Fong and another v Ho Soo Tong and others

General Division of the High Court14 August 2026

Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumed resulting trusts — Whether claimants proved payment of purchase price; Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumed resulting trusts — Whether claimants proved absence of intention to benefit registered owners; Civil Procedure — Pleadings — Causes of action raised for first time in closing submissions

[2026] SGHC 161

Chang Yiuw Choon and others v Chong Yiuw Tham and another

General Division of the High Court31 July 2026

Civil Procedure — Pleadings — Striking out; Contract — Privity of contract — Enforcement of contract by third party — Vandepitte procedure; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Pallant v Morgan equity

[2026] SGHCR 28

Prosetskii, Aleksandr Viktorovich v Courtwell Asia Ltd and others

High Court Registrar29 July 2026

Companies — Shares — Reflective loss principle; Trusts — Beneficiaries — Rights; Trusts — Recipient liability — Knowing receipt

[2026] SGHCF 22

YFW v YFX

SGHCF27 July 2026

Family Law — Matrimonial assets — Division; Trusts — Discretionary trusts — Whether assets in discretionary trust form part of matrimonial pool; Family Law — Maintenance — Wife

[2026] SGHC 153

Lam Kin Hing Kenneth v Yung Man Tung

General Division of the High Court21 July 2026

Contract — Breach; Contract — Contractual terms; Contract — Remedies — Damages; Restitution — Unjust enrichment — Total failure of consideration; Trusts — Quistclose trusts

[2026] SGHC 129

Lin Tze Kin (suing as co-executor of the estate of Tan Ah Kar, deceased) and another v Lim Sze Eng and another

General Division of the High Court16 June 2026

Equity — Remedies — Equitable accounting — Whether co-owner who improved property entitled to remedy of equitable accounting; Limitation of actions — Sections 6 and 22 of the Limitation Act — Whether laches applied; Trusts — Constructive and resulting trusts

[2026] SGHC 117

Leow Hock Soon and another v Chew Eik Khoon and others

General Division of the High Court26 May 2026

Companies — Oppression — Standing; Contract — Misrepresentation — Fraudulent; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Institutional constructive trust — Fraud

[2026] SGCA 27

Wong Mei Lee Millie v Ngor Shing Rong Jake

Court of Appeal20 May 2026

Trusts — Resulting trusts — Parties’ intentions; Trusts — Resulting trusts — Illegality

[2026] SGHC(A) 14

Tia Sock Kiu Sally v Tia Oon Lai and another appeal

Appellate Division of the High Court5 May 2026

Trusts — Constructive trusts — Common intention constructive trusts

[2026] SGHC 83

Hajjah Noor Jehan bte Mohamed Ghouse v Nur Fairuz Magnus

General Division of the High Court15 April 2026

Trusts — Resulting trusts; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Common intention constructive trusts; Equity — Estoppel — Proprietary estoppel; Trusts — Unlawful trust — Whether trust is unenforceable for illegality

[2026] SGDC 124

Cheng Tim Jin v Chan Kam Piew

District Court7 April 2026

Trusts — Trustees — Fiduciary relationship — Trustee holding shares in company on trust for beneficiary — Trustee terminating sale of shares in company to third party — Whether trustee’s actions breach of trust — Whether breach of fiduciary duties — Whether trustee’s actions caused beneficiary to lose chance to sell shares to third party –– Whether chance lost real or substantial –– Whether chance lost speculative –– Section 3A Trustees Act 1967

[2026] SGHC 71

Yap Siu Cheng v Yap Sui Cheng and another

General Division of the High Court2 April 2026

Probate and Administration — Personal representatives — Liabilities; Trusts — Common intention constructive trusts; Trusts — Express trusts; Trusts — Presumed resulting trusts

[2026] SGHC(A) 5

Jethanand Harkishindas Bhojwani v Devin Jethanand Bhojwani and others and another appeal

Appellate Division of the High Court30 January 2026

Civil Procedure — Appeals — Permission to appeal; Equity — Fiduciary relationships — Duties; Trusts — Breach of trust — Remedies; Trusts — Trustees — Duties; Trusts — Trustees — Removal

[2025] SGHC 246

Ng Chee Tian and another v Ng Chee Pong and others

General Division of the High Court5 December 2025

Equity — Fiduciary relationships; Equity — Remedies — Account; Probate and Administration — Administration of assets — Getting in and investing properly; Trusts — Breach of trust — Remedies; Trusts — Trustees — Duties

[2025] SGHC 224

Koh You Quan (executor of the estate of Ang Geok Kheng, deceased) v Koh Hock Meng

General Division of the High Court11 November 2025

Civil Procedure — Originating processes — Applicant bringing originating application with unsatisfactory evidence — Whether originating application should be converted into originating claim; Land — Interest in land — Joint tenancy — Joint tenant attempting to statutorily sever joint tenancy — Whether statutory severance was properly effected — Sections 53(5) and 53(6) of the Land Titles Act 1993; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Common intention constructive trusts — Executor claiming common intention constructive trust over property —Whether there is sufficient evidence of common intention; Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumed resulting trusts — Executor claiming presumed resulting trust over property — Whether there is sufficient evidence of financial contributions to purchase price of property

[2025] SGHC 215

Re Tan Yi Lin Cheryl and another

General Division of the High Court31 October 2025

Trusts — Property — Application for power of sale of trust property

[2025] SGHC(A) 21

DOP v DOO

Appellate Division of the High Court30 October 2025

Equity — Remedies — Equitable accounting; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Common intention constructive trust; Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumed resulting trusts

[2025] SGHC 209

Jenny Prawesti v Sauw Tjiauw Koe

General Division of the High Court23 October 2025

Trusts — Express trusts — Certainties — Whether a letter of indemnity sufficiently evinces a putative settlor’s intention to create a trust; Trusts — Express trusts — Certainties — Whether a letter of indemnity sufficiently identifies the subject matter of the purported trust; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Common intention constructive trusts — Daughter alleged that her mother made an oral representation over 20 years ago that they would purchase properties together as equal owners in the future, while the mother alleged that she had always told the daughter that she was only borrowing the daughter’s name for the properties — Whether there was a common intention for either party to hold their various legal interests in the 26 properties on trust for the other; Trusts — Resulting trusts — Sole financial responsibility for 25 of the properties fell on the mother — Whether there was a resulting trust in the mother’s favour

[2025] SGHC 196

Tio Geok Hong Bryan v Korbett Pte Ltd and another and another suit

General Division of the High Court3 October 2025

Equity — Remedies — Account — Liability of trustee to account —Appropriate date at which profits of errant fiduciary should be assessed; Trusts — Trustees — Whether trustee should be indemnified for unauthorised expenses that benefited trust estate and incurred in good faith

[2025] SGHC 166

Yeo Xueli Celeste v Sin David and another

General Division of the High Court21 August 2025

Civil Procedure -— Pleadings — Amendment; Civil Procedure -— Pleadings — Striking out; Equity — Fiduciary relationships — When arising; Equity — Fiduciary relationships — Accessory liability — Dishonest assistance — Requisite mental state; Tort — Conspiracy — Combination; Tort — Conspiracy — Lawful means conspiracy — Predominant purpose to cause injury or damage; Trusts — Express trusts — Certainties; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Institutional constructive trust

[2025] SGHC 149

Park Hotel Management Pte Ltd (in liquidation) and others v Law Ching Hung and others

General Division of the High Court6 August 2025

Companies — Directors — Duties; Insolvency Law — Avoidance of transactions — Transactions at an undervalue; Insolvency Law — Avoidance of transactions — Unfair preferences; Tort — Unlawful means conspiracy; Trusts — Accessory liability — Dishonest assistance; Trusts — Accessory liability — Knowing receipt

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