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Debt and recovery [2025] SGDC 256

RVG CONSULTING INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD. v SHANTI OVERSEAS PTE. LTD.

The District Court held that USD 100,000 was a loan, rejected the alleged 3% interest term and set-off defence, and awarded the Claimant USD 44,000 plus interest.

  • Loan
  • Interest
  • Set-off agreement
  • Mutuality of debts
  • Admissibility of electronic communications
  • Set-off
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Civil procedure [2021] SGHC 278

HARIBO ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD. v AQUARIUS CORPORATION

Singapore High Court distributorship dispute over termination rights, alleged contractual breaches, lost profits, interest, and cross-currency set-off.

  • Termination clause
  • Distributorship agreement
  • Interest
  • Set-off currency conversion
  • German law (bgb) issues
  • Quantification of lost profits
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Building and construction law [2021] SGCA 34

RANGE CONSTRUCTION PTE LTD v GOLDBELL ENGINEERING PTE LTD

The Court of Appeal held that, under the pre-amendment SOPA, an adjudicator could consider an employer's set-off for liquidated damages included in a payment response.

  • Adjudication
  • Jurisdiction of adjudicator
  • Natural justice
  • Payment claim
  • Payment response
  • Liquidated damages set-off
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Contract law [2010] SGCA 47

Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank BA (Trading as Rabobank International), Singapore Branch v Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd

The Court of Appeal held that MEPL failed to prove an implied tripartite set-off agreement, so Rabobank’s assigned receivables claim succeeded.

  • Implied contract
  • Tripartite set-off
  • Burden of proof (legal vs evidential)
  • Prior equities and assignee liability (civil law act s 4(8))
  • Equitable set-off
  • Costs and interest
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Arbitration [2010] SGHC 293

Engineering Construction Pte Ltd v Sanchoon Builders Pte Ltd

The High Court refused leave to appeal from an arbitral award, holding the subcontract set-off issue was fact-specific and the arbitrator was not obviously wrong.

  • Leave to appeal
  • Contractual set-off against certified payments
  • Equitable/transactional set-off (abatement)
  • Repudiatory breach
  • Contract interpretation
  • Quantification of counterclaims
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Contract [2010] SGHC 70

Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank BA (trading as Rabobank International), Singapore Branch v Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd

The High Court held that an implied tripartite set-off agreement existed and that the plaintiff bank’s assignment took subject to pre-existing set-off equities.

  • Tripartite set-off
  • Silent assignment
  • Notice of assignment
  • Mutuality
  • Receivables financing
  • Factoring
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Civil procedure [2003] SGCA 8

Cheng Poh Building Construction Pte Ltd v First City Builders Pte Ltd

The Court of Appeal lifted a stay of execution on summary judgment, holding that a separate counterclaim did not justify delaying enforcement absent special circumstances.

  • Stay of execution
  • Summary judgment
  • Counterclaim
  • Running account
  • Leave to defend
  • Stay-of-execution
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Construction law [2000] SGHC 74

United Eng Contractors Pte Ltd v L & M Concrete Specialists Pte Ltd

High Court construction dispute over unpaid subcontract works, defective pleading of counterclaims described as “back charges,” set-off, and costs.

  • Breach of contract
  • Counterclaim
  • Pleadings and particulars
  • Special damages
  • Strike out
  • Set-off
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