Lim Geok Hian v Lim Guan Chin

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date01 October 1993
Docket NumberOriginating Summons No 1278 of
Date01 October 1993
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)

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9 cases
  • Pelican Engineering Pte Ltd v Lim Wee Chuan and Another
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 3 August 1999
    ... ... (iv) Lim Cheng Gee - 25,000 shares ... (v) Goh Eng Hian - 50,000 shares ... (vi) Teong Uk Choo - 50,000 shares It is ... On what is `undue influence`, LP Thean JA in Lim Geok Hian v Lim Guan Chin [1994] 1 SLR 203 at 216 stated: ... ...
  • Chua Yung Kim v Madlis bin Azid @ Aziz & 97 Others
    • Malaysia
    • Court of Appeal (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Chua Chian Ya v Music & Movements (S) Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 6 November 2009
    ...proscribing specific (and improvident) bargains (see, for example, the High Court decisions of Lim Geok Hian v Lim Guan Chin [1994] 1 SLR 203 and Pek Nam Kee v Peh Lam Kong [1996] 1 SLR 75; and cf the (also) High Court decision of Fong Whye Koon v Chan Ah Thong [1996] 2 SLR 706, which demon......
  • Bom v Bok
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 29 November 2018
    ...as those proffered in the preceding paragraph (see, for example, the Singapore High Court decisions of Lim Geok Hian v Lim Guan Chin [1993] 3 SLR(R) 183 at [44]–[48]; Pek Nam Kee and another v Peh Lam Kong and another [1994] 2 SLR(R) 750 at [131]; Jumabhoy at [194]–[198] (affirmed, Jumabhoy......
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4 books & journal articles
  • CONTRACT LAW IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: UNIFORMITY OR DIVERGENCE?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December - January 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...proscribing specific (and improvident) bargains (see, for example, the High Court decisions of Lim Geok Hian v Lim Guan Chin [1994] 1 SLR 203 and Pek Nam Kee v Peh Lam Kong [1996] 1 SLR 75; and cf the (also) High Court decision of Fong Whye Koon v Chan Ah Thong [1996] 2 SLR 706, which demon......
  • VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — THE INTERACTION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1998, December 1998
    • 1 December 1998
    ...paragraph before last. 284 And see generally Tjio, “Undue Influence, Unconscionability and Good Faith”(1996) 8 SAcLJ 429 at 438—447. 285 [1994] 1 SLR 203. 286 [1975] QB 326. 287 [1985] 1 WLR 173 (at the Court of Appeal stage); see also supra, note 256. 288 (1889) 40 ChD 312; see also supra,......
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2001, December 2001
    • 1 December 2001
    ...is illustrated. 9.68 Secondly, Goh J”s reference (at 112) to passages in a couple of local decisions (viz, Lim Geok Hian v Lim Guan Chin[1994] 1 SLR 203 at 216 and Rajabali Jumabhoy v Ameerali R Jumabhoy[1997] 3 SLR 802 at 855) does, in fact, support the present writer”s argument to the eff......
  • Equity and Trust
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...the law on undue influence as expounded in Pelican Engineering Pte Ltd v Lim Wee Chuan[2001] 1 SLR 105, Lim Geok Hian v Lim Guan Chin[1994] 1 SLR 203, and Rajabali Jumabhoy v Ameerali R Jumabhoy[1997] 3 SLR 802. Woo JC held that in the instant case there was not just an aged mother-and-son ......