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Arbitration [2023] SGHC(I) 18

DBX & Anor v DBZ

The Singapore International Commercial Court dismissed a challenge to two Singapore-seated arbitral awards, holding the application was time-barred and the merits failed.

  • Setting aside arbitral award (art 34 model law)
  • Time limits and receipt of award
  • Correction of award (art 33 model law)
  • Validity and incorporation of arbitration agreement
  • Service and notice of arbitration
  • Public policy challenge/illegality
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Statutory interpretation [2020] SGHC 28

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v Zyfas Medical Co (Sued as a firm)

The High Court held that a patent declaration under the Therapeutic Products Regulations need not be knowingly or intentionally omitted for reg 24 to apply.

  • Patent declaration
  • Regulation 23(2) tpr
  • Regulation 24(1)(a)(ii) tpr
  • Regulation 25 tpr
  • Cancellation of registration
  • Mens rea in regulatory context
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Banking [2019] SGHC(I) 15

SHEILA KAZZAZ & Anor v STANDARD CHARTERED BANK & 3 Ors

The SICC dismissed claims by the Kazzaz family against Standard Chartered and three bankers arising from a private banking, trust, insurance and mortgage arrangement.

  • Negligent advice
  • Negligent misrepresentation
  • Misrepresentation act s2(1)
  • Mortgage of personal property
  • Life insurance premium financing
  • Trust and fiduciary structures
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Civil procedure [2019] SGCA 31

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v Drug Houses of Australia Pte. Ltd.

The Court of Appeal held the claim was not hopeless and restored struck-out pleadings, but refused an interlocutory injunction because damages were adequate.

  • Strike out for no reasonable cause of action
  • Interlocutory injunction
  • Patent infringement
  • Regulatory declaration to health sciences authority
  • Tpr reg 23 and reg 24
  • Strike-out
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Tort [2013] SGHC 231

Resource Piling Pte Ltd v Geospecs Pte Ltd

The High Court held that Geospecs owed no duty of care to Resource Piling over borehole logs relied on in tendering. The negligence claim was dismissed.

  • Negligent misstatement
  • Duty of care
  • Factual foreseeability
  • Proximity
  • Policy considerations
  • Site investigation
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Criminal law [2013] SGHC 157

Public Prosecutor v Lee Pit Chin

The High Court allowed the prosecution’s appeal and increased the respondent’s imprisonment for two unlicensed moneylending charges from three months to nine months each.

  • Unlicensed moneylending
  • Sentencing principles
  • General deterrence
  • Aggravating and mitigating factors
  • Interest rate regulation
  • Unlicensed-moneylending
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Criminal law [2012] SGHC 124

Xu Zhaohe v Public Prosecutor

The High Court held that imprisonment was inappropriate for using another person’s identity card to try to enter a casino while under a self-exclusion order, substituting a $3,000 fine.

  • Use of identity card (nra s13(2)(b))
  • Self-exclusion orders
  • Deterrence in sentencing
  • Proportionality
  • Casino control act enforcement
  • Sentencing
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Statutory interpretation [2009] SGHC 160

Yuen Wai Loon v Public Prosecutor

The High Court held that section 18(1) of the PISAA was not of general application and did not apply to the appellant, who was not in the private security or investigation business.

  • Construction of statute
  • Scope of application of statute
  • Interpretation of penal provisions
  • Legislative intent and parliamentary materials
  • Statutory-interpretation
  • Criminal-law
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