Re Bkr

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date19 May 2015
Date19 May 2015
Docket NumberCivil Appeal No 27 of 2014
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)
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21 cases
  • Law Society of Singapore v Yeo Khirn Hai Alvin
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 8 January 2020
    ...of time to file OS 810/2019: at [135] and [137]. Case(s) referred to ARW v Comptroller of Income Tax [2019] 1 SLR 499 (refd) BKR, Re [2015] 4 SLR 81 (refd) Board of Education v Rice [1911] AC 179 (refd) Chia Shih Ching James v Law Society of Singapore [1985–1986] SLR(R) 209; [1984–1985] SLR......
  • Nava Bharat (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Straits Law Practice LLC and another and another suit
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 28 May 2015
    ...another [2014] 3 SLR 1231 (“AEL”) (no appeal against decision on negligence; see Cheo Yeoh & Associates LLC and another v AEL and others [2015] SGCA 26 at [12] and [14]), at [32]–[33], accepted that the scope of a solicitor’s tortious duty would also have to be determined by reference to th......
  • Tda v Tcz and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 12 April 2016
    ...the Judge was wrong to decline to exercise her power under r 575 of the FJR to call witnesses of her own motion: at [56]. B K R , Re [2015] 4 SLR 81 (refd) Cheong Kim Hock v Lin Securities (Pte) [1992] 1 SLR(R) 497; [1992] 2 SLR 349 (refd) Deadman, Re [1971] 1 WLR 426 (distd) Drydocks World......
  • Goh Yng Yng Karen (executrix of the estate of Liew Khoon Fong (alias Liew Fong), deceased) v Goh Yong Chiang Kelvin
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 17 September 2020
    ...relevant to a decision for a short period only does not prevent him from being regarded as able to make the decision. In Re BKR [2015] 4 SLR 81 (“Re BKR”) at [134], the Court of Appeal explained the nature of the test for capacity in s 4(1) of the MCA as follows: … [T]he test for capacity i......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Case Comment ASSESSING MENTAL CAPACITY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...at [48]. 14 BUV v BUU [2019] SGHCF 15 at [45] and [48]. 15 BUV v BUU [2019] SGHCF 15 at [75]. 16 BUV v BUU [2019] SGHCF 15 at [75]. 17 [2015] 4 SLR 81. 18 Re BKR [2015] 4 SLR 81 at [134]; see also the English position in King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v C [2015] EWCOP 80 at [3......
  • Equity and Trusts
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...garnishee order against Deuteron's bank be made absolute. 15.6 The issue of mental capacity to declare a trust came to the fore in Re BKR[2015] 4 SLR 81. This decision is a landmark decision on mental capacity and undue influence involving an elder. For the purposes of the review in this pa......
  • Administrative and Constitutional Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2021, December 2021
    • 1 December 2021
    ...[2021] SGHC 285 at [48]. 65 Re The Online Citizen Pte Ltd [2021] SGHC 285 at [49]. 66 See para 1.1 above. 67 Cap 161, 2009 Rev Ed. 68 [2015] 4 SLR 81. 69 CBB v Law Society of Singapore [2021] 1 SLR 977 at [4]. 70 R v Justices of Kingston 86 LTR 589, referenced in CBB v Law Society of Singap......
  • THE DEPUTYSHIP REGIME UNDER SINGAPORE'S MENTAL CAPACITY ACT: AN INTRODUCTION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...Mental Capacity: BUV v BUU [2019] SGHCF 15” Singapore Academy of Law Journal (published on e-First 12 February 2020). 63 Re BKR [2015] 4 SLR 81 at [134]. 64 Re BKR [2015] 4 SLR 81 at [134]. 65 A Local Authority v TZ [2013] EWCOP 2322 at [17]. 66 Section 4(1) of the Mental Capacity Act (Cap ......

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