Chong Lee Leong Seng Company (Pte) Ltd; Kuah Kok Kim

JurisdictionSingapore
Date1991
Year1991
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)
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5 cases
  • Low Peng Boon v Low Janie and Others and Other Appeals
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 30 January 1999
    ...Sawmill (Miri) Sdn Bhd [1978] 2 MLJ 229 , 233 per Lord Wilberforce and Kuah Kok Kim v Chong Lee Leong Seng Co (Pte) Ltd [1991] SLR 122 [1991] 2 MLJ 129 . The court has an unfettered discretion to make such order as it thinks most appropriate. Each case has to be considered on its own merits......
  • Low Peng Boon v Low Janie and Others and Other Appeals
    • Singapore
    • Court of Three Judges (Singapore)
    • 30 January 1999
    ...Sawmill (Miri) Sdn Bhd [1978] 2 MLJ 229 , 233 per Lord Wilberforce and Kuah Kok Kim v Chong Lee Leong Seng Co (Pte) Ltd [1991] SLR 122 [1991] 2 MLJ 129 . The court has an unfettered discretion to make such order as it thinks most appropriate. Each case has to be considered on its own merits......
  • Re Eng Cheong Peng Kee Pte Ltd (No 2)
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 28 March 1998
    ...respect to a number of authorities, one of which was the Court of Appeal decision in Kuah Kok Kim v Chong Lee Leong Seng Co (Pte) Ltd [1991] 2 MLJ 129 [1991] SLR 122 where Mr Wong submitted the Court of Appeal had held that the court has an unfettered discretion on the range of remedies it ......
  • Canberra Development Pte Ltd v Mercurine Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 26 October 2007
    ...or serious that the court ought not to exercise its discretion under r 1 to remedy it” : see Kuah Kok Kim v Chong Lee Leong Seng [1991] 2 MLJ 129. Nor was the requirement contained in O 13 r 4(1) shown to be a mandatory rule which required strict compliance. In such circumstances, the omiss......
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3 books & journal articles
  • WINDING UP PETITIONS FOUNDED ON A BONA FIDE DISPUTED DEBT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1998, December 1998
    • 1 December 1998
    ...to strike out a petition. The operation of the two sets of Rules are mutually exclusive: Kuah Kok Kim v Chang Lee Leong Seng Co (Pte) Ltd[1991] 2 MLJ 129. Certain cases, however, have suggested that order 18 rule 19 of the Rules of Court empowers the striking out of a winding up petition: A......
  • PROTECTING THE MINORITY SHAREHOLDER
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1992, December 1992
    • 1 December 1992
    ...on section 216 gives much guidance as to the general approach to interpretation. See Kuah Kok Kim v. Cheong Lee Leong Seng Co (Pte) Ltd[1991] 2 MLJ 129 (Court of Appeal) and Re Gee Hoe Chan Trading Co Pte Ltd[1991] 3 MLJ 137 (High Court). 8 Ibid, at page 229. 9 See Report of the Select Comm......
  • FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE — THE STATUTORY DERIVATIVE ACTION IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1995, December 1995
    • 1 December 1995
    ...effort recently to cut English legal apron strings. 38 Pillai, Sourcebook of Singapore and Malaysian Company Law (1986) at p 1036. 39 [1991] 2 MLJ 129 (Singapore Court of Appeal). 40 ibid, at p 131. 41 Tang Choon Keng Realty (Pte) Ltd v Tang Wee Cheng [1992] 2 SLR 1114, (High Court, Singapo......

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