Over & Over Ltd v Bonvests Holdings Ltd

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date24 February 2010
Date24 February 2010
Docket NumberCivil Appeal No 141 of 2008
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)

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43 cases
  • Ho Yew Kong v Sakae Holdings Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 29 June 2018
    ...shareholder’s interests; (c) unfair discrimination; and (d) prejudice. As we held in Over & Over Ltd v Bonvests Holdings Ltd and another [2010] 2 SLR 776 (“Over & Over”), the common element undergirding these four limbs is commercial unfairness (at [70]–[71] and [81]). A shareholder who bri......
  • Ong Heng Chuan v Ong Teck Chuan and others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 30 July 2020
    ...is no real dispute as between the two sides about what these principles are. In Over & Over Ltd v Bonvests Holdings Ltd and another [2010] 2 SLR 776 (“Over & Over”), the Court of Appeal (“CA”) agreed with the first-instance judge that there was “no meaningful distinction” between the four l......
  • Thio Syn Pyn v Thio Syn Kym Wendy
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 27 March 2019
    ...by the case law (and see, in the Singapore context, the decision of this Court in Over & Over Ltd v Bonvests Holdings Ltd and another [2010] 2 SLR 776 at [132] (where the majority would become the sole shareholder, viz, having a shareholding of 100% (and see, to like effect, the Manitoba Co......
  • Kiri Industries Ltd v Senda International Capital Ltd and another and other appeals and other matters
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 6 July 2022
    ...to s 216 of the Companies Act, which were quoted from the Court of Appeal’s decision in Over and Over Ltd v Bonvests Holdings Ltd [2010] 2 SLR 776. Relevantly for present purposes, they included the following (see Main Appeal Judgment at [36]): (a) Section 216 provides for four limbs under ......
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6 books & journal articles
  • SOME CURRENT ISSUES IN SINGAPORE CORPORATE LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December - January 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...Traxiar Drilling Partners II Pte Ltd v Dvergsten, Dag Oivind [2018] SGHC 14 at [104]–[105]. 98 Over & Over Ltd v Bonvests Holdings Ltd [2010] 2 SLR 776 at [77]. See also Sim Yong Kim v Evenstar Investments Pte Ltd [2006] 3 SLR(R) 827 at [37]. 99 [1978] 2 MLJ 227. 100 Re Kong Thai Sawmill (M......
  • Company Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2017, December 2017
    • 1 December 2017
    ...and 364. 25 Leong Chee Kin v Ideal Design Studio Pte Ltd [2017] SGHC 192 at [65]. 26 See, eg, Over & Over Ltd v Bonvests Holdings Ltd [2010] 2 SLR 776, Spectramed Pte Ltd v Lek Puay Puay [2011] SGHC 43 and Sharikat Logistics Pte Ltd v Ong Boon Chuan [2014] SGHC 224. 27 See Tan Cheng-Han & W......
  • Company Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2018, December 2018
    • 1 December 2018
    ...Ah Sia v Tiong Tuang Yeong [2014] 4 SLR 140; Spectramed Pte Ltd v Lek Puay Puay [2011] SGHC 43; Over & Over Ltd v Bonvests Holdings Ltd [2010] 2 SLR 776; Lim Swee Khiang v Borden Co (Pte) Ltd [2006] 4 SLR(R) 745. 18 See, eg, Lim Kok Wah v Lim Boh Yong [2015] SGHC 211 (relief denied in famil......
  • REVERSE OPPRESSION AND THE RESIDUAL NATURE OF THE SHAREHOLDER'S COMMERCIAL UNFAIRNESS REMEDY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...“Shareholder Voice and Its Opponents” (2005) 5(2) Journal of Corporate Law Studies 305. 70 See Over & Over Ltd v Bonvests Holdings Ltd[2010] 2 SLR 776 at [83]. 71 M Rice, “The Availability of the Oppression Remedy to Majority Shareholders in Ontario”(1989) 16 Can Bus LJ 58 at 64–65. 72Ng Ke......
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