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Civil procedure [2025] SGDC 288

LA FRANCE MARK ROBERT v ENERMECH PTE. LTD.

The District Court upheld an unless order and dismissed the plaintiff’s claims after repeated discovery defaults, finding his non-compliance intentional and contumelious.

  • Unless orders
  • General discovery
  • Striking out/dismissal
  • Contumelious conduct
  • Abuse of process
  • Affidavit verifying list of documents (avlod)
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Civil procedure [2025] SGHC 214

LANDSCAPE ENGINEERING PTE LTD v DOT SAFETY SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD. & Anor

The High Court granted a company director leave to represent the company in one originating application, interpreting the Rules of Court on corporate self-representation.

  • Corporate self-representation
  • Representation by company officer (o 4 r 3 roc 2021)
  • Judicial discretion
  • Abuse of process
  • Use of ai in pleadings
  • Corporate-self-representation
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Civil procedure [2025] SGHC(A) 11

MALAYAN BANKING BERHAD v ZHANG ZHENCHENG

The Appellate Division held that service of an originating process by eLitigation on the respondent’s solicitors was invalid because the Notice of Appointment of Solicitor did not show instructions to accept service.

  • Service of originating process
  • Appointment of solicitor
  • Substituted service
  • Electronic service (elitigation)
  • Challenge to jurisdiction
  • Notice of appointment of solicitor
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Civil procedure [2022] SGHC(I) 12

CHRISTIAN ALFRED LARPIN & Anor v KAIKHUSHRU SHIAVAX NARGOLWALA & Anor

The SICC assessed reasonable costs after the main judgment, allowing the defendants’ claimed substantive costs and awarding further costs for a costs application.

  • Reasonable costs under o 110 r 46
  • Indemnity costs
  • Assessment of costs
  • Transfer of proceedings to sicc
  • Proportionality of costs
  • Reasonable-costs
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Civil procedure [2015] SGHC 269

Attorney-General v Lai Swee Lin Linda

The High Court granted an order under s 74 SCJA restraining further proceedings by the defendant without leave, finding habitual and persistent vexatious litigation.

  • Vexatious litigant orders
  • Res judicata
  • Abuse of process
  • Leave to institute proceedings (s 74 scja)
  • Discovery
  • Recusal
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Civil procedure [2013] SGHC 98

Terrestrial Pte Ltd v Allgo Marine Pte Ltd and another and another appeal

The High Court struck out a duplicate suit as an abuse of process, holding that Allgo Marine’s fresh action replicated its counterclaim in earlier proceedings.

  • Strike out
  • Abuse of process
  • Consolidation
  • Counterclaim
  • Duplicate actions
  • Costs
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Civil procedure [2011] SGHC 146

Ong Jane Rebecca v PricewaterhouseCoopers and others

The High Court upheld the assistant registrar’s rejection of a late strike-out application filed in breach of a court order, and noted that extension of time should have been sought first.

  • Strike out
  • Extension of time
  • Pleadings (verbosity)
  • Electronic filing
  • Registrar powers
  • Frivolous and vexatious pleadings
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Civil procedure [2008] SGCA 38

Mercurine Pte Ltd v Canberra Development Pte Ltd

Singapore Court of Appeal clarified the tests for setting aside regular and irregular default judgments, found Mercurine’s delay not fatal, and varied the judgment.

  • Setting aside default judgment
  • Regular vs irregular default judgment
  • Delay in filing setting-aside application
  • Power to amend judgment
  • Severance of judgment parts
  • Setting-aside-default-judgment
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