Nordic International Ltd v Morten Innhaug

JurisdictionSingapore
JudgeSteven Chong J
Judgment Date04 January 2017
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)
Docket NumberSuit No 875 of 2010
Date04 January 2017

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  • How Weng Fan v Sengkang Town Council
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 9 November 2022
    ...SLR 265 (refd) Ng Eng Ghee v Mamata Kapildev Dave [2009] 3 SLR(R) 109; [2009] 3 SLR 109 (refd) Nordic International Ltd v Morten Innhaug [2017] 3 SLR 957 (refd) Permanent Building Society v Wheeler (1994) 14 ACSR 109 (refd) Porter v Magill [2002] 2 AC 357 (refd) PP v Lam Leng Hung [2018] 1 ......
  • How Weng Fan and others v Sengkang Town Council and other appeals
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 9 November 2022
    ...and his duty to his principal are in conflict (see, for instance, Ho Yew Kong at [135]; Nordic International Ltd v Morten Innhaug [2017] 3 SLR 957 (“Nordic International”) at [53]). The second prohibits the fiduciary from acting in a situation where there is a conflict between his duties ow......
  • Sim Poh Ping v Winsta Holding Pte Ltd and another and other appeals
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 9 April 2020
    ...personal interests over those of his principals (see, for example, the High Court decision of Nordic International Ltd v Morten Innhaug [2017] 3 SLR 957 at [53]), which might suggest a binary opposition of interests between the fiduciary’s own interests, and his principal’s interests. But t......
  • Goh Chan Peng v Beyonics Technology Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 27 June 2017
    ...Zealand Netherlands Society “Oranje” Inc v Kuys [1973] 1 WLR 1126; [1973] 2 All ER 1222 (refd) Nordic International Ltd v Morten Innhaug [2017] 3 SLR 957 (folld) PP v Lew Syn Pau [2006] 4 SLR(R) 210; [2006] 4 SLR 210 (folld) Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd v Lim Eng Hock Peter [2010] SGHC 163 (re......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Company Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...decision where it was held that there was a breach of the no-conflict and no-profit rules was Nordic International Ltd v Morten Innhaug [2017] 3 SLR 957. In this case, it was also held that the surreptitious manner in which the defendant acted, with a view to obtain an improper benefit, wer......
  • Agency and Partnership Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2021, December 2021
    • 1 December 2021
    ...1 AC 74 at 98. 40 See Peter Watts & F M B Reynolds, Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency (Sweet & Maxwell, 21st Ed, 2018) at para 6–035. 41 [2017] 3 SLR 957. 42 Nordic International Ltd v Morten Innhaug [2017] 3 SLR 957 at [91]. 43 Tonny Permana v One Tree Capital Management Pte Ltd [2021] 2 SLR......
  • Equity and Trusts
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...Tan Yok Koon v Tan Choo Suan [2017] 1 SLR 654 at [194]. 44 Tan Yok Koon v Tan Choo Suan [2017] 1 SLR 654 at [194]. 45 [2017] SGHC 78. 46 [2017] 3 SLR 957. 47 Cap 50, 2006 Rev Ed. 48 MKC Associates Co Ltd v Kabushiki Kaisha Honjin [2017] SGHC 317 at [192]. 49 MKC Associates Co Ltd v Kabushik......