Choo Hock Swee; Choo Tiong Hin and Others

JurisdictionSingapore
Date1959
Year1959
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)
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5 cases
  • Simon Limcolonel Christian Lim Xiao Ping v Simon Limcolonel Christian Lim Xiao Ping, 22-03-2016
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • 22 Marzo 2016
    ...the amount is not ‘legally recoverable’. She relied on the Singapore’s Court of Appeal decision in Choo Toing Hiu & Ors v Choo Hock Swee [1959] MLJ 67. Further she held that Simon could not the non-naming of his children as beneficiaries in the said Will as 6 Q-02-1220-07/2014 an excuse not......
  • Colonel Christian Lim Xiao Ping v Simon Lim, 24-06-2014
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 24 Junio 2014
    ...As authority for this proposition, I refer to a Singapore Court of Appeal 25 decision in Choo Tiong Hiu & Ors v. Choo Hock Swee [1959] MLJ 67 which held that family arrangements, even one contained in agreement as in that case, should not be attended by any legal 4 KCH-24-188/12-2013 conseq......
  • Oon Hoon Wah v Noble Global Sdn. Bhd, 25-07-2013
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 25 Julio 2013
    ...for damages for breach of that agreement and I relied on a Singapore Court of Appeal case of Choo Tiong Hin & Ors v. Choo Hock Swee [1959] MLJ 67 where Whyatt CJ held that the in every case is whether the law will imply, from the circumstances of the case, a common intention that the agreem......
  • John Kung Sie Kiat v Anne Kung Soo Ching, 29-11-2013
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 29 Noviembre 2013
    ...by court orders. I relied, in both cases, on the decision of a Singapore Court of Appeal in Choo Tiong Hin & Ors v. Choo Hock Swee [1959] MLJ 67 which in turn applied the ratio in Balfour v. Balfour [1919] KB 571 where Atkin LJ held that family arrangements such as in that case (for the hus......
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1 books & journal articles
  • ENVISIONING THE JUDICIAL ABOLITION OF THE DOCTRINE OF CONSIDERATION IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2011, December 2011
    • 1 Diciembre 2011
    ...Digilandmall.com Pte Ltd [2004] 2 SLR(R) 594 at [139] per Rajah JC. 9 Balfour v Balfour [1919] 2 KB 571; Choo Tiong Hin v Choo Hock Swee [1959] MLJ 67. 10 Mark B Wessman, “Retraining the Gatekeeper: Further reflections on the Doctrine of Consideration” (1996) 29 Loy LA L Rev 713 at 716. 11 ......

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