Chew Joo Chiat, deceased, Re; Lim Boon Pok v Eugene Ernest Colman, Official Assignee of the Straits Settlements

JurisdictionSingapore
Date1933
Year1933
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)

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2 cases
  • Chen Xiaoqi v Chen Fangqi
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 21 April 2023
    ...Pte Ltd [2022] 1 SLR 1 (folld) Cheverny Consulting Ltd v Whitehead Mann Ltd [2007] 1 All ER (Comm) 124 (folld) Chew Joo Chiat, Re [1933] MLJ 187 (folld) Chiang Shirley v Chiang Dong Pheng [2015] 3 SLR 770 (folld) Exsus Travel Ltd v Turner [2014] EWCA Civ 1331 (folld) Foley v Classique Coach......
  • Shiraz Abidally Husain v Husain Safdar Abidally
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 27 May 2009
    ...for the calculation of what remuneration an executor or administrator ought to get is, as Murison CJ put it in Re Chew Joo Chiat Deceased [1933] MLJ 187, whether or not the executor or administrator has done his duty according to law. Mr Safdar could have saved the estate all the trouble or......
3 books & journal articles
  • ENGLISH STATUTES IN SINGAPORE COURTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1991, December 1991
    • 1 December 1991
    ...548 Ibid., at pp. 114—5. 549 Ibid., at pp. 115—6. As a result of the decision the Moneylenders Ordinance No. 6 of 1935 was passed. 550 [1933] M.L.J. 187. 551 20 & 21 Geo. V c.43. 552 20 & 21 Geo. V c.25. 553 Supra, note 550 at p. 189. 554 Ibid. 555 Ibid., at p. 190. 556 [1935] M.L.J. 272. 5......
  • Insurance Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...money which has been received by the insured under the insurance policy (see eg, King Lee Tee v Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd(1933) MLJ 187, where the plaintiff sought to rely on the English Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 1930, which was applicable by virtue of s 5(1......
  • “ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE”
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1998, December 1998
    • 1 December 1998
    ...since there was no privity of contract between the victim and the insurer: see King Lee Tee v Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd[1933] MLJ 187, at 188. 7 [1982] 2 MLJ 62. 8 The Malaysian Act, the Road Transport Act 1985, contains in pari materia provisions. 9 See preamble of the agree......