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Civil procedure

DVA and another v DVC

The Singapore International Commercial Court fixed costs at S$20,000 plus S$820 disbursements after dismissing a summons to classify the case as offshore.

  • Reasonableness and proportionality of costs
  • Assessment of costs incurred
  • Sicc rules o 22 r 3
  • Offshore case application
  • Civil-procedure
  • Costs
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Civil procedure [2026] SGDC 155

MPM CAPITAL PTE. LTD. v DESPACE PROJECT AND DESIGN PTE. LTD. & Anor

The District Court allowed a company’s sole director to represent it, but refused to make him personally undertake the company’s legal costs.

  • Corporate self-representation
  • Separate legal personality
  • Personal costs orders
  • Undertaking for costs
  • Judicial discretion
  • Corporate-self-representation
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Civil procedure [2026] SGHCR 13

GOH CHIN CHENG v CHOCO UP SG PTE LTD

The court dismissed a debtor’s bid to set aside a statutory demand, upheld service, extended time for a bankruptcy filing, and ordered personal costs against counsel for misciting cases.

  • Statutory demand
  • Setting aside statutory demand
  • Service of statutory demand
  • Extension of time to file bankruptcy application
  • Penalty doctrine
  • Moneylenders act
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Civil procedure [2026] SGMC 52

WEN HANRONG v HUATIONG CONTRACTOR PTE LTD & Anor

The court fixed pre- and post-offer costs after an assessment of damages, awarded indemnity costs to the defendants from the offer date, and ordered the plaintiff’s solicitor to bear them personally.

  • Costs
  • Personal liability of solicitor for costs
  • Solicitor's duty to the court (duty of candour)
  • Offers to settle (o.22a)
  • Order 59 r 8 roc
  • Offer-to-settle
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Family law [2026] SGFC 52

XPX v XPW

The Family Court rejected allegations of fraud or improper conduct, but held that legal aid protection from costs starts only when the Grant of Aid is filed.

  • Protective orders
  • Legal aid statutory exceptions
  • Costs liability
  • Fraud and misrepresentation
  • Timing of grant of aid
  • Court disclosure of administrative decisions
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Civil procedure [2026] SGHCR 9

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

The court dismissed an application to defer taxation of costs, holding that a separate damages inquiry over an interim injunction did not affect trial-cost assessment.

  • Taxation of costs
  • Assessment of damages
  • Interim injunctions
  • Proportionality in costs assessment
  • Taxation-of-costs
  • Assessment-of-damages
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Civil procedure [2026] SGDC 102

ANDY TAN POH WENG v JEE LEE

District Court appeal in a personal injury assessment. The court upheld the damages award, rejected aggravation and psychiatric causation claims, admitted some further evidence, and ordered repayment of excess interim payment.

  • Aggravation of pre-existing conditions
  • Causation of psychiatric injury
  • Admission of fresh evidence on appeal
  • Ladd v marshall test and modified test
  • Interim payment repayment
  • Indemnity costs and calderbank offers
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Civil procedure [2026] SGHC(A) 8

Balbeer Singh Mangat & Anor v TEMBUSU GROWTH FUND III LTD & 5 Ors

The court dismissed an application for more time to file an appeal, holding that the applicants’ lengthy delay, repeated missed deadlines, and weak merits did not justify relief.

  • Extension of time to appeal
  • Official assignee sanction
  • Security deposit for appeal
  • Preliminary merits threshold (not hopeless)
  • Prejudice to respondents
  • Conspiracy tort
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Civil procedure [2026] SGHC 49

Tan Hai Peng Micheal and another (as the executors of the estate of Tan Thuan Teck, deceased) v Tan Cheong Joo and another and other matters

The High Court fixed costs in consolidated loan claims and ordered personal costs against two solicitors for citing fictitious AI-generated authorities.

  • Personal costs order
  • Citation of authorities
  • Use of generative ai in legal practice
  • Professional duty of verification
  • Party-and-party costs assessment
  • Proportionality in costs
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Defamation [2026] SGHCR 5

UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED v XU YUANCHEN & Anor

The High Court assessed S$125,000 in general damages for defamation brought by UOB over online publications alleging scandal, coercion, and criminal wrongdoing.

  • Assessment of damages
  • Malice
  • Publication and republication
  • Corporate claimant reputation
  • Service by email
  • Court costs scale
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