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Family law

YJE v YJF

The Family Court dismissed a father’s application to vary maintenance for five children after finding he had not candidly disclosed material facts or supporting evidence.

  • Maintenance
  • Variation of maintenance order
  • Duty judge complaint filing
  • Candour in applications
  • Variation-of-maintenance-order
  • Candour-in-applications
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Criminal procedure

Kevin Chelvam v Public Prosecutor and another appeal

The High Court dismissed Kevin Chelvam’s conviction and sentence appeal, but allowed the Prosecution’s cross-appeal on hurt, increasing that term to 30 months.

  • Appeals
  • Abetment of grievous hurt
  • Causing hurt
  • Causing evidence to disappear
  • Giving false information to a public servant
  • Concurrent and consecutive sentencing
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Family law

YHY v YHZ

The court delayed discontinuance to obtain a current welfare update on the child, then allowed it and ordered the applicant to pay costs of $1,200.

  • Guardianship
  • Testamentary guardian
  • Discontinuance
  • Child welfare
  • Costs
  • Child-welfare
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Contract law

Reformd Pte Ltd v Kopigi Pte Ltd

The High Court held that porosity and a June 2024 deadline were not contractual terms, but the defendant wrongfully terminated the consultancy agreement.

  • Discharge
  • Breach
  • Termination
  • Damages
  • Nominal damages
  • Implied terms
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Family law

XSN v XSO

Appeal against a committal application over two dogs was dismissed. The court held the consent order was too unclear for contempt and ownership was not proved.

  • Consent orders
  • Judgment and orders enforcement
  • Civil contempt
  • Interpretation of consent orders
  • Matrimonial assets
  • Ownership of dogs
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Criminal procedure and sentencing

NUR DIYANAH BINTE MOHAMED RAMDAN v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR

The High Court allowed the sentence appeal, held the District Judge had relied on an inapt precedent, and reduced imprisonment from 7 months 3 weeks to 15 weeks.

  • Appeal against sentence
  • Sentencing principles
  • Payment services act 2019 s 5
  • Sentence-appeal
  • Sentencing-principles
  • Payment-services-act
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Family law

YHW v YHX

The Family Court declined to continue supervised access and upheld interim unsupervised parenting time, including one overnight each week, pending a private custody evaluation.

  • Interim parenting time orders
  • Unsupervised access
  • Overnight access
  • Supervised access
  • Custody and care and control
  • Child welfare
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Family law

YHD v YHE

The Family Court interpreted a consent order on a matrimonial flat to mean the wife alone must redeem the outstanding mortgage, varied the completion time, and dismissed a bid to set aside the final judgment.

  • Interpretation of consent orders
  • Part-share resale of matrimonial flat
  • Outstanding mortgage loan allocation
  • Registrar’s empowerment clause
  • Setting aside final judgment
  • Costs
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Insolvency law

NADARAJAN S/O CHIDAMBARAM v ESWARI D/O NATARAJAN

The High Court dismissed an application to extend time and set aside a statutory demand based on judgment debts, holding that a pending challenge to those debts was not enough.

  • Statutory demand
  • Extension of time to set aside statutory demand
  • Judgment debt
  • Pending challenge to judgment debt
  • Stay of enforcement
  • Res judicata
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