Mareva injunction may be refused on basis of collateral or ulterior purpose

13 Jun 2018

In JTrust Asia Pte Ltd v Group Lease Holdings Pte Ltd and others [2018] SGCA 27, the Singapore Court of Appeal decided that in principle, a collateral or ulterior purpose could justify the refusal of Mareva relief where this rendered the application an abuse of process, although this would ordinarily be difficult to establish at an early stage of the litigation.

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