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Family law [2024] SGHC(A) 34

WQP v WQQ

The Appellate Division partly allowed a divorce appeal, granting facilitative handover and counselling orders, and varying the division of matrimonial assets to 65:35 in the husband’s favour.

  • Division of matrimonial assets
  • Classification vs global assessment methodology
  • Pre-marriage assets and commingling
  • Indirect and direct contributions
  • Facilitative handover orders
  • Therapeutic interventions/counselling
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Civil procedure [2024] SGHC 100

LIM CHEE SENG v PHANG YEW KIAT

The High Court dismissed a district court appeal over a $200,000 share transaction, holding that restitution for total failure of consideration was available.

  • Pleadings
  • Inconsistent claims on appeal
  • Appellate jurisdiction
  • Failure of consideration
  • Total failure of consideration
  • Unjust enrichment
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Civil procedure [2022] SGCA 27

SHEE SEE KUEN & 4 Ors v PT TRIKOMSEL OKE TBK.

The Court of Appeal held that no fresh leave was needed to serve transfer applications out of jurisdiction because they were interlocutory in substance.

  • Service out of jurisdiction
  • Originating summons
  • Transfer of appeal
  • Leave to serve
  • Interlocutory proceedings
  • Service-out-of-jurisdiction
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Family law [2020] SGCA 01

BZD v BZE

The Court of Appeal upheld the wife’s monthly personal maintenance but rejected her bid for an increase, finding her relocation claim speculative.

  • Variation of maintenance
  • Material change of circumstances
  • Spousal maintenance
  • Relocation
  • Foreseeability
  • Self‑induced changes
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Family law [2018] SGCA 78

BOR v BOS

The Court of Appeal recalculated the matrimonial pool, adjusted the bond and interest figures, found limited adverse inferences, and varied the division and child maintenance orders.

  • Valuation of assets (bonds)
  • Adverse inference/dissipation
  • Division ratios in single‑income marriages
  • Interest on investments as asset
  • Lump sum maintenance for children
  • Leave to adduce fresh evidence on appeal
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Civil procedure [2018] SGCA 58

RESORTS WORLD AT SENTOSA PTE. LTD. v GOEL ADESH KUMAR

The Court of Appeal held that a joint offer to settle triggered O 22A costs consequences and that the plaintiff should bear most third-party costs for omitting a necessary party.

  • Third party proceedings
  • Offers to settle
  • Order 22a r 9(3) roc
  • Vicarious liability
  • Costs scale and taxation
  • Offers-to-settle
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Civil procedure [2017] SGHC 265

THU AUNG ZAW v Ku Swee Boon (trading as Norb Creative Studio)

The High Court allowed an amendment correcting a sole proprietorship’s name, held the error was non-substantive, and dismissed the challenge to summary judgment and bankruptcy-related relief.

  • Summary judgment
  • Setting aside judgment
  • Amendments to judgments and pleadings
  • Functus officio
  • Order 20 r 5(3) roc
  • Order 20 r 11 roc
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Family law [2012] SGHC 177

Morris Richard Neil v Morris Carolina Hernandez

High Court appeal on spousal maintenance varied the Wife's monthly maintenance from $866 to $500, rejecting nominal maintenance but reducing costs.

  • Spousal maintenance
  • Variation of maintenance order
  • Evidence of employment
  • Apportionment between child and spouse
  • Spousal-maintenance
  • Variation-of-maintenance-order
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Defamation [2010] SGCA 26

Lim Eng Hock Peter v Lin Jian Wei and another and another appeal

Singapore Court of Appeal set defamation damages at SGD 210,000, finding the libel serious, widely published, and aggravated by the respondents’ conduct.

  • General damages
  • Aggravated damages
  • Publication
  • Public figure status
  • Deterrence
  • Defamation
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Trade mark law [2010] SGCA 14

Valentino Globe BV v Pacific Rim Industries Inc

The Court of Appeal dismissed Valentino Globe BV’s challenge to a trade mark registration, finding no bad faith and no likelihood of confusion under the Trade Marks Act.

  • Bad faith in trade mark registration
  • Likelihood of confusion
  • Proprietorship and licensing of trade marks
  • Opposition to registration
  • Trade-mark-bad-faith
  • Likelihood-of-confusion
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