W&P Piling Pte Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Chew Yin What and Others

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date31 July 2007
Date31 July 2007
Docket NumberSuit No 162 of 2006
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)

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11 cases
  • Long Say Ting Daniel v Merukh Nunik Elizabeth
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 18 December 2012
    ...Vita Health Laboratories Pte Ltd v Pang Seng Meng [2004] 4 SLR (R) 162; [2004] 4 SLR 162 (refd) W&P Piling Pte Ltd v Chew Yin What [2007] 4 SLR (R) 218; [2007] 4 SLR 218 (refd) Central Provident Fund Act (Cap 36, 2001 Rev Ed) s 7 (1) Companies Act 1967 (Act 42 of 1967) s 354 Companies Act (......
  • Nordic International Ltd v Morten Innhaug
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 4 January 2017
    ...RedfernsELR [1996] AC 421 (refd) Towers v Premier Waste Management LtdUNK [2012] 1 BCLC 67 (folld) W&P Piling Pte Ltd v Chew Yin What [2007] 4 SLR(R) 218; [2007] 4 SLR 218 (refd) Legislation referred to Civil Law Act (Cap 43, 1999 Rev Ed) s 4(8) Companies Act (Cap 50, 2006 Rev Ed) s 391 (co......
  • Ho Yew Kong v Sakae Holdings Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 29 June 2018
    ...of directors – nominee directors … owe the same duties to a company as any other director (see eg, W&P Piling Pte Ltd v Chew Yin What [2007] 4 SLR(R) 218 at [80]). 44 The standard of care and diligence owed by a director, however, is not fixed and is a continuum depending on various factors......
  • Long Say Ting Daniel v Merukh Nunik Elizabeth (personal representative of the estate of Merukh Jusuf, deceased) (Motor-Way Credit Pte Ltd, intervener)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 18 December 2012
    ...Ltd v Tang Eng Leong and another [1995] 1 SLR(R) 576 (“Hytech”), and W&P Piling Pte Ltd (in liquidation) v Chew Yin What and others [2007] 4 SLR(R) 218 (“W&P Piling”)). In Hytech, Warren Khoo J (at [63]) described the requirement as one of acting “honestly and in good faith”. It was found t......
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3 books & journal articles
  • THE DUTY TO MAINTAIN EQUALITY IN COLLECTIVE CREDITOR ACTIONS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...Pte Ltd[2002] 3 SLR 241. See also Chip Thye Enterprises Pte Ltd v Phay Gi Mo[2004] 1 SLR 434; W&P Piling Pte Ltd v Chew Yin What[2007] 4 SLR 218. 3 In both law and equity: see, for example, Cockshott v Bennett(1788) 2 TR 763; Mare v Sandford(1859) 1 Giff 288. 4 (1788) 2 TR 763. See also Jac......
  • Insolvency Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...an intention to defraud. Directors” fiduciary duty to have regard to creditors” interests 15.102 W & P Piling Pte Ltd v Chew Yin What [2007] 4 SLR 218 was a case of blatant breaches of fiduciary duty by the directors of a company with regard to the interests of the company”s creditors. The ......
  • Company Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...to plead both contributory negligence as well as s 391. 8.6 A different conclusion was arrived at in W & P Piling Pte Ltd v Chew Yin What[2007] 4 SLR 218. In that case, Justice Lai Siu Chiu said that the defendant directors in question had neither acted honestly or reasonably in transferrin......