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Legal Updates
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11 October 2024
This client update discusses the recent decision of Huber’s Pte Ltd v Hu Lee Impex Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 230 which dealt with the Court’s discretion to grant easements under Section 97A of the Land Titles Act 1993.
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11 October 2024
The Court may wind up a company if the company, has by special resolution, resolved that it be wound up by the Court (section 125(1)(a) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018). In a rare decision on section 125(1)(a), the Judge in ...
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11 September 2024
Under what is known as the “Fraud Exception”, issuers of letters of credit are not obliged to make payment under the same if, for the purpose of drawing on the credit, the beneficiary fraudulently presents to the issuer documents that contain materia...
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10 September 2024
In the recent English decision of Wright v Chappell [2024] EWHC 2166 (Ch), errant directors, who had breached their directors’ duties with respect to a company that had continued to trade while insolvent or bordering on insolvency...
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03 September 2024
This client update discusses key proposals in the Bill focused on addressing inequalities that platform workers encounter with regard to work safety, post-retirement financial security and formal representation.
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30 August 2024
In Foreland Singapore Pte Ltd and another v IG Asia Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 179, the Court interpreted the permitted consequences of a force majeure clause with reference to its language and alongside other relevant terms in the parties’ agreement. On a ...
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15 August 2024
In Pertamina International Marketing & Distribution Pte Ltd v P-H-O-E-N-I-X Petroleum Philippines, Inc (also known as Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc) and another matter [2024] SGHC(I) 19, the Singapore International Commercial Court found that an...
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14 August 2024
In Lo Kok Jong v Eng Beng [2024] SGCA 28, the Singapore Court of Appeal held that whether the rule against double recovery is violated depends on whether the intended purpose of the payment, objectively judged, was to provide the claimant with a sum ...
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07 August 2024
In this update, Directors Mohan Gopalan and Mitchell Yeo examine some lessons learnt from the recent Singapore High Court case of Gunvor SA v Atlantis Commodities Trading Pte Ltd [2024] SGHC 192, where the claimant failed in its application to wind u...
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01 August 2024
This article will discuss the potential pitfalls of such a program as well as the relevant legal regimes that surround it.
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