Engineering Construction Pte Ltd v Attorney General and Another

JurisdictionSingapore
JudgeLim Teong Qwee JC
Judgment Date17 September 1992
Neutral Citation[1992] SGHC 244
Citation[1992] SGHC 244
Docket NumberOriginating Summons No 527 of 1992,Originating Summons No 768 of 1993
Year1992
Plaintiff CounselPhilip Jeyaretnam (Helen Yeo & Partners)
Date20 January 1994
Defendant CounselKhong Swee Lin (Chan Cher Boon & Leong),Soh Tze Bian (State Counsel)
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
Published date19 September 2003

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  • LW Infrastructure Pte Ltd v Lim Chin San Contractors Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 5 July 2011
    ...Co Ltd, The v The General Accident, Fire, and Life Assurance Corp Ltd [1912] SC 591 (distd) Engineering Construction Pte Ltd v AG [1994] 1 SLR (R) 125; [1994] 1 SLR 687 (distd) Fence Gate Ltd v NEL Construction Ltd (2001) 82 Con LR 41 (folld) Hurst v Bryk [2002] 1 AC 185 (folld) JF Finnegan......
  • Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No 2192 v Regenthill Properties Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 5 July 2002
    ...of documents which Regenthill are required to deliver. They relied upon the High Court decision in Engineering Construction Pte Ltd v AG [1993] 1 SLR 390. 15 It will be seen that under O 7 r 3(1) there are two alternative manners in which a plaintiff in an OS could formulate his case. One i......
  • Engineering Construction Pte Ltd v Attorney General and Another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 25 June 1997
    ...8.Lim Teong Qwee JC`s judgment which was delivered on 17 September 1992 is reported in Engineering Construction Pte Ltd v A-G [1993] 1 SLR 390. His analysis of the role, duties and obligations of the SO under the contract set out in p 398 and reproduced below is relevant to the issues I wil......
  • Steel Industries Pte Ltd v Deenn Engineering Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 6 August 2003
    ...There could not be two arbiters of fact. This position was supported by the authority of Engineering Construction v Attorney General [1994] 1 SLR 687 which decided that the Superintending Officer under the PWD Form of Contract (a position equivalent to that of the architect under the Main C......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Contract administration
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume I - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...Con LR 26 at 50 [74]–51 [76], per Coulson J (airmed by the Court of appeal). See also Engineering Construction Pte Ltd v A-G (Singapore) [1993] 1 SLr 390 (noted by Powell-Smith, [1993] iCLr 521). 311 Token Construction Co Ltd v Charlton Estates Ltd (1973) 1 BLr 48 at 54, per Edmund Davies L......
  • Building and Construction Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2003, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...the main contractor and the employer. In reaching this conclusion, she followed Engineering Construction Pte Ltd v Attorney-General[1994] 1 SLR 687. Direct payments to sub-contractors and schemes of arrangement 5.15 Nominated sub-contractors are chosen by the employer, but do not enter into......