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Civil procedure [2025] SGHCR 9

TAN TSE HAW v PEH TIAN SWEE & Anor

The High Court made an unless order for non-compliance with a production order, finding the requested documents highly material and the respondent's default persistent.

  • Production order
  • Discovery
  • Unless order
  • Non-compliance sanctions
  • Proportionality of relief
  • Minority oppression
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Civil procedure [2024] SGHC 299

SANG CHEOL WOO v CHARLES CHOI SPACKMAN & 8 Ors

The High Court upheld leave to amend a defence in a bifurcated suit, holding the proceedings were still afoot and the proposed champerty-based amendments were not an abuse of process.

  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Riddick principle (use of disclosed documents)
  • Open court exception
  • Bifurcation of trial
  • Contingency fee arrangements
  • Public policy
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Civil procedure [2023] SGHCR 5

TARUN HOTCHAND CHAINANI v AVINDERPAL SINGH S/O RANJIT SINGH & 2 Ors

The court struck out a defence amendment that tried to withdraw prior admissions about an alleged business understanding and its application to certain properties.

  • Striking out pleadings
  • Amendment of pleadings
  • Withdrawal/resiling from admissions
  • Consequential amendment
  • Abuse of process
  • Discovery
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Civil procedure [2022] SGHC 46

CLM v CLN & 6 Ors

Singapore High Court held stolen cryptocurrency can support proprietary relief, granted a worldwide freezing order, allowed joinder of identified parties, and permitted email service out of jurisdiction.

  • Mareva injunction
  • Proprietary injunction
  • Persons unknown / joinder by description
  • Substituted service out of jurisdiction (email)
  • Cryptocurrency as property
  • Ancillary disclosure (bankers trust)
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Civil procedure [2021] SGCA 63

JANE REBECCA ONG v LIM LIE HOA ALSO KNOWN AS LIM LE HOA ALSO KNOWN AS LILY ARIEF HUSNI

Court of Appeal held that EJD affidavits were protected by the Riddick undertaking but allowed retrospective leave to use them in Suit 47, restoring the suit.

  • Riddick undertaking (implied undertaking on disclosure)
  • Examination of judgment debtor (ejd)
  • Abuse of process
  • Disclosure and use of documents
  • Striking out for abuse
  • Stay on bankruptcy
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Arbitration [2021] SGCA 9

BLOOMBERRY RESORTS AND HOTELS INC. & Anor v GLOBAL GAMING PHILIPPINES LLC & Anor

Singapore Court of Appeal held the arbitral award was not induced or affected by fraud and that the three-month setting-aside limit under the Model Law could not be extended.

  • Setting aside arbitral awards
  • Enforcement of awards
  • Fraud and procedural fraud
  • Time-bar/limitation (article 34(3) model law)
  • Natural justice/fair hearing
  • Interpretation of international arbitration act s24
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Criminal law [2020] SGCA 56

PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Wee Teong Boo

The Court of Appeal affirmed Wee Teong Boo’s acquittal on rape, but overturned his convictions for outrage of modesty and digital penetration.

  • Rape
  • Outrage of modesty
  • Sexual assault by digital penetration
  • Alternative charges (ss 138–139 cpc)
  • Prosecution disclosure obligations (kadar)
  • Outrage-of-modesty
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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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Arbitration [2018] SGHC 101

CHINA MACHINE NEW ENERGY CORPORATION v JAGUAR ENERGY GUATEMALA LLC & Anor

The High Court rejected a challenge to an ICC arbitral award, holding that an attorneys-eyes-only disclosure regime did not breach natural justice or public policy.

  • Attorneys-eyes-only orders
  • Natural justice
  • Setting aside arbitral awards
  • Expedited arbitration
  • Document production and confidentiality
  • Guerrilla tactics in arbitration
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