Trusts

Act TA 1967

Trustees Act 1967

[2025] SGCA 20

Khoo Phaik Ean Patricia and another v Khoo Phaik Eng Katherine and others [2025] SGCA 20

SGCA2025-04-30

Trusts — Resulting trusts — Ownership of moneys in joint bank accounts

[2025] SGHC 79

Re Muhammad Naseer [2025] SGHC 79

SGHC2025-04-29

Trusts — Beneficiaries — Minors; Trusts — Trust for sale

[2025] SGHCR 8

[2025] SGHCR 8

SGHCR2025-04-28

Civil Procedure — Consent judgments; Land — Interest in land — Liability of trustee to account; Trusts — Breach of trust — Remedies

[2025] SGHC 46

Kwee Seng Chio Peter v Lai Seng Kwoon (in his capacity as private trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of Kwee Hui Ling Karen) and another matter [2025] SGHC 46

SGHC2025-03-20

Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumed resulting trusts — Father purchasing residential properties in daughter’s sole name — Whether father was ultimate source of funds — Whether presumption of resulting trust arises; Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumption of...

[2025] SGHC 19

Kok Kuan Hwa v Yap Wing Sang [2025] SGHC 19

SGHC2025-02-05

Contract — Formation; Contract — Intention to create legal relations; Trusts — Resulting trusts; Gifts — Incomplete; Personal Property — Ownership — Absolute; Personal Property — Ownership — Beneficial

[2024] SGHC 324

Concorde Services Pte Ltd (in liquidation) v Ong Kim Hock and another [2024] SGHC 324

SGHC2024-12-17

Companies — Directors — Duties; Damages — Assessment; Tort — Conspiracy — Unlawful means conspiracy; Trusts — Accessory liability — Knowing receipt

[2024] SGHC 310

Devin Jethanand Bhojwani and others v Jethanand Harkishindas Bhojwani [2024] SGHC 310

SGHC2024-12-05

Civil Procedure — Affidavits — Principles applicable to grant of permission to adduce new affidavit of evidence-in-chief after deadline for filing and exchanging of affidavits of evidence-in-chief between litigants has elapsed — Two-stage test of relevance an...

[2024] SGHC 295

Re Cai Jinhong [2024] SGHC 295

SGHC2024-11-22

Trusts — Variation — Statutory jurisdiction of court

[2024] SGHC 252

Lee Cheng Ling v Argyle Fund Investments Pte Ltd and another [2024] SGHC 252

SGHC2024-10-10

Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumed resulting trusts; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Common intention constructive trusts

[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) 25

ESR Group Ltd and others v HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) Ltd and another and another matter [2024] SGHC(A) 25

SGHC(A)2024-09-04

Trusts — Trust deed — Interpretation — Whether the trust deed prohibits certain unitholders of the trust from voting at an extraordinary general meeting; Deeds and Other Instruments — Deeds — Interpretation — Whether the trust deed prohibits certain unitholde...

[2024] SGHC 203

British and Malayan Trustees Ltd v Ameen Ali Salim Talib and others [2024] SGHC 203

SGHC2024-08-08

Trusts — Trustees — Administration actions — O 80 r 2 of the Rules of Court (2014 Rev Ed); Trusts — Trustees — Powers — Right of recoupment

[2024] SGHC 198

Sullivan, Sir Cornelius Sean v Hill Capital Pte Ltd and another [2024] SGHC 198

SGHC2024-08-01

Civil Procedure — Striking Out; Trusts — Trustees; Equity — Fiduciary relationships — When arising

[2024] SGHC 196

Re Medora Xerxes Jamshid (in his capacity as the private trustee in bankruptcy of Tan Han Meng) ( Planar One & Associates Pte Ltd (in liquidation) , non-party) [2024] SGHC 196

SGHC2024-07-31

Insolvency Law — Bankruptcy — Trustee in bankruptcy — Application for directions — Section 40(2) Bankruptcy Act (Cap 20, 2009 Rev Ed); Insolvency Law — Bankruptcy — Proof of debt — Whether claim against bankrupt for breach of fiduciary duty is a provable debt...

[2024] SGHC 157

Sullivan, Sir Cornelius Sean v Hill Capital Pte Ltd and another [2024] SGHC 157

SGHC2024-06-20

Trusts] – [Trustees] – [Retirement; Trusts] – [Trustees] – [Duties; Conflict of Laws] – [Choice of jurisdiction; Conflict of Laws] – [Choice of law] – [Trusts

[2024] SGHC 153

HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore) Ltd v Q uarz Capital Asia (Singapore) Pte Ltd and others [2024] SGHC 153

SGHC2024-06-14

Trusts — Purpose trusts — Real estate investment trust — Whether internalisation of REIT’s management requires amendments to its trust deed; Trusts — Trustees — Powers — Whether trustee’s power to certify amendments is in the nature of a discretion; Trusts —...

[2024] SGHC(A) 14

Djony Gunawan v Christina Lesmana and another appeal [2024] SGHC(A) 14

SGHC(A)2024-05-10

Evidence — Proof of evidence — Presumptions; Family Law — Advancement — Presumption; Land — Interest in land — Joint tenancy; Trusts — Resulting trusts

[2024] SGHC 115

Lim Kim Toon v Lim Hwee Hoon [2024] SGHC 115

SGHC2024-05-06

Trusts — Resulting trusts; Trusts — Constructive trust; Gifts — Presumptions against — Resulting trusts

[2024] SGHC 46

Envy Asset Management Pte Ltd (in liquidation) and others v CH Biovest Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 46

SGHC2024-02-21

Trusts — Quistclose trusts; Trusts — Constructive trusts; Insolvency Law — Avoidance of transactions — Intent to defraud; Insolvency Law — Avoidance of transactions — Transactions at an undervalue; Restitution — Unjust enrichment — Total failure of considerat...

[2024] SGHC 44

Peck Wee Boon Patrick and another v Lim Poh Goon and others [2024] SGHC 44

SGHC2024-02-15

Companies — Incorporation of companies — Lifting corporate veil; Contract — Breach; Contract — Misrepresentation — Fraudulent; Equity — Dishonest assistance; Equity — Knowing receipt; Tort — Conspiracy; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Institutional constructiv...

[2024] SGHC 22

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 [2024] SGHC 22

SGHC2024-01-29

Probate and Administration — Personal representatives — Standing; Limitation of Actions — Particular causes of action — Trust property; Restitution — Laches; Evidence — Proof of evidence — Presumptions; Trusts — Bare trusts

[2023] SGHC 347

Tan Boon Teck Donald v Lum Shih Kai [2023] SGHC 347

SGHC2023-12-08

Succession and Wills — Construction; Trusts — Trustees — Powers; Trusts — Variation — Inherent jurisdiction of court

[2023] SGHC(A) 40

Salaya Kalairani (legal representative of the estate of Tey Siew Choon, deceased) and another v Appangam Govindhasamy (legal representative of the estate of T Govindasamy, deceased) and others and another appeal [2023] SGHC(A) 40

SGHC(A)2023-12-07

Civil Procedure — Limitation; Equity — Defences — Acquiescence; Equity — Defences — Laches; Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumed resulting trusts; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Common intention constructive trusts

[2023] SGHC 343

Ng Lai Kuen Priscilla Elizabeth and others v Ng Choong Keong Steven [2023] SGHC 343

SGHC2023-12-05

Trusts — Resulting trusts — Presumed resulting trusts; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Common intention constructive trusts; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Ambulatory constructive trusts; Civil Procedure — Costs — Principles