Contract – Misrepresentation – Statements of fact and statements of intention – No representation and non-reliance clause – Whether liability for misrepresentation excluded by contract – Section 3 of Misrepresentation Act – Whether exclusion clause reasonable 

Restitution – Unjust enrichment – Blockchain network failed to launch – Whether there is total failure of consideration – Whether change of position defence made out 

Criminal Procedure and Sentencing 

Contract – Intention to create legal relations 

Contract – Compromise – Whether forbearance to sue on invalid claim amounts to consideration 

Criminal Law – Statutory offences – Companies Act 

Criminal Procedure and Sentencing – Sentencing 

Family Law – Maintenance – Wife – Assets received from division sufficient to provide for Wife 

Family Law – Maintenance – Child – Tertiary education overseas 

Trusts – Constructive trusts – Institutional constructive trust and remedial constructive trust 

Trusts – Constructive trusts – Trust over cryptocurrency 

Choses in Action – Legal requirements – Whether cryptocurrency is a chose in action 

Insurance – Marine insurance – Thefts occurring to shipments of tin concentrate  – Whether insurer liable to indemnify insured for loss of four shipments – Whether thefts of shipments occurred during period of insurance cover 

[2023] SGHC 106 

Companies – Statutory derivative action – Bringing statutory derivative action for permanent injunction with no good legal basis and with no credible evidence – Whether proposed action was prima facie in interests of company  – Section 216A(3)(c) Companies Act 1967 (2020 Rev Ed) 

Companies – Statutory derivative action – Bringing statutory derivative action for permanent injunction with no good legal basis and with no credible evidence – Whether applicant honestly or reasonably believed that a good action exists – Section 216A(3)(b) Companies Act 1967 (2020 Rev Ed) 

Damages – Compensation and damages 

Damages – Remoteness 

Damages – Mitigation – Contract 

Companies – Incorporation of companies – Lifting corporate veil 

Tort – Inducement of breach of contract 

Insolvency Law – Administration of insolvent estates – Judicial management – Interim judicial management – Competing nominations for appointment of interim judicial manager – Whether interim judicial manager nominated by applicant company or creditors of company should be appointed 

Contract – Contractual terms – Express terms 

Contract – Remedies – Damages 

Contract – Contractual terms – Implied terms 

Contract – Remedies – Damages 

Restitution – Failure of consideration – Total failure of consideration 

Restitution – Change of position 

Insurance – Property insurance – Theft and fraud – Metals trading company claiming for value of stolen shipments from insurance company – Whether thefts of tin concentrate covered by insurance policy 

Damages – Measure of damages – Tort – Vessel colliding into and damaging coral reef – Assessing value of damaged coral reef 

Damages – Rules in awarding – Proof of actual damage – Vessel colliding and damaging coral reef – Burden of proof to establish area of damage caused to coral reef 

[2021] SGHC 197 

Contract – Contractual terms – Express terms 

Contract – Contractual terms – Parol evidence rule 

Contract – Contractual terms – Rules of construction 

Contract – Formation 

Contract – Mistake – Mistake of fact 

Equity – Remedies – Rectification 

Restitution – Unjust enrichment 

Companies – Oppression – Minority shareholders 

Insolvency Law – Bankruptcy – Interim order – Appellant proposing voluntary arrangement – Appellant seeking interim order under s 279(2) Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (Act 40 of 2018) – Whether appropriate for court to make interim order – Whether appellant’s proposal for voluntary arrangement serious and viable – Principles governing granting of interim order – Section 279(2) Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 (Act 40 of 2018) 

Arbitration – Award – Recourse against award – Setting aside – Arbitral award granting relief under different agreement from the agreement containing arbitration agreement – Whether arbitral award could be set aside because it contained decisions on matters beyond scope of submissions to arbitration – Article 34(2)(a)(iii) UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration 

Arbitration – Award – Recourse against award – Setting aside – Arbitrator disallowing arbitration applicant’s application to amend pleadings at start of arbitration – Whether breach of rules of natural justice occurred in connection with making of arbitral award – Section 24(b) International Arbitration Act (Cap 143A, 2002 Rev Ed) 

Civil Procedure – Affidavits – Whether new affidavit providing expert opinion on foreign law should be struck out 

Companies Act (Cap 50, 2006  Rev Ed) s 216 

Civil Procedure – Striking out – Party seeking to strike out pleadings for embarrassing or delaying fair trial of action – Whether facts pleaded sufficient to support plea of malice – Order 18 r 19(1)(c) Rules of Court (Cap 322, R 5, 2014 Rev Ed) 

Tort – Defamation – Malice – Lack of honest belief – Defendant publishing analyst report on litigation involving plaintiff – Whether publications made with reckless indifference as to truth or falsity of statements therein 

Contract – Contractual terms – Scope of work – Whether plaintiff’s claims for back-charges were related to work and services that fell within existing contractual scope of work 

Contract – Contractual terms – Whether clause was “pay when paid” or “pay if paid” clause – Whether burden was on plaintiff or defendant to show that defendant had not received payment from main contractor, and whether burden was discharged on the facts – Whether defendant complied with implied undertaking to pursue all means available to obtain payment from main contractor