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10 September 2019
The Variable Capital Companies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill was introduced for first reading in the Singapore Parliament on 5 August 2019, and seeks to amend, inter alia, the Goods and Services Tax Act (Cap. 117A), the Income Tax Act (Cap. 134) an...
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16 August 2019
In Viking Engineering Pte Ltd v Feen, Bjornar and others [2019] SGHC 158, the Singapore High Court clarified that Order 45 Rule 6 of the Rules of Court can be utilised to set a timeframe for payment where the circumstances warrant the exercise of suc...
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16 August 2019
In BNA v BNB and another [2019] SGHC 142, the Singapore High Court dismissed an application challenging an arbitral tribunal’s jurisdiction. The plaintiff argued that the tribunal lacked jurisdiction as the arbitration agreement was governed by the l...
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14 August 2019
In the recent case of Akfel Commodities Turkey Holding Anonim Sirketi v Townsend, Adam [2019] SGCA 43, the Court of Appeal provided clarification on the instances where courts would impose conditions on a defendant for defending the summary judgment ...
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08 August 2019
The Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Amendment) Bill and Reciprocal Enforcement of Commonwealth Judgments (Repeal) Bill were introduced in Parliament on 5 August 2019. This article discusses the changes which these Bills are expected to b...
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05 August 2019
Common Reporting Standard (CRS) audits by the IRAS will commence in the second half of 2019. The IRAS will be focusing on financial institutions that pose a higher risk of non-compliance. Their review methodology entails an internal controls audit at...
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01 August 2019
On 20 December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to adopt the UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation. This brings to fruition three years of discussions with participation from 85 mem...
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31 July 2019
In the recent decision of Anan Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd v VTB Bank (Public Joint Stock Co) [2019] SGCA 41, the Court of Appeal allowed an application to adduce fresh evidence for an appeal against a winding-up order. It laid out a two-step analysis...
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19 July 2019
Last week, the Court of Appeal in Yap Chen Hsiang Osborn v PP [2019] SGCA 40, had the opportunity to clarify that secondary offenders (ie someone who does not himself commit the offence from which the proceeds were originally derived but launders the...
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17 July 2019
In the recent decision of Far East Square Pte Ltd v Yau Lee Construction (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2019] SGCA 36, the Court of Appeal held that the “duty to speak” via a payment response provided under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Pa...
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