Star City Pty Ltd (fka Sydney Harbour Casino Pty Ltd) v Tan Hong Woon
| Jurisdiction | Singapore |
| Judgment Date | 25 February 2002 |
| Date | 25 February 2002 |
| Docket Number | Civil Appeal No 600093 of |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Singapore) |
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10 cases
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Desert Palace Inc. v Poh Soon Kiat
...to the law of Singapore. 30 The defendant next referred me to Star City Pty Ltd (fka Sydney Harbour Casino Pty Ltd) v Tan Hong Woon [2002] 2 SLR 22 (“Star City”), where the Court of Appeal rejected the claim of a casino for recovery of sums loaned to a gambler. The background facts were set......
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Poh Soon Kiat v Desert Palace Inc.
...applied to determine the real substance of the 2001 California Judgment, having regard to, inter alia, Star City Pty Ltd v Tan Hong Woon [2002] 2 SLR 22 (“Star City (CA)”), Burswood Nominees ([10] supra) and Murakami Takako v Wiryadi Louise Maria [2007] 4 SLR 565 (“Murakami Takako”). Based ......
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Ling Yew Kong v Teo Vin Li Richard
...Shunmugam Jayakumar v Jeyaretnam Joshua Benjamin [1996] 2 SLR (R) 658; [1997] 2 SLR 172 (refd) Star City Pty Ltd v Tan Hong Woon [2002] 1 SLR (R) 306; [2002] 2 SLR 22 (refd) Star Cruise Services Ltd v Overseas Union Bank Ltd [1999] 2 SLR (R) 183; [1999] 3 SLR 412 (refd) Tan Sim Lay v Lim Ki......
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Shanghai Electric Group Company Ltd v PT Merak Energi Indonesia
...a demand on an on-demand bond in the present circumstances is a substantive or procedural matter. In Star City Pty Ltd v Tan Hong Woon [2002] 2 SLR 22 (“Star City”), the Court of Appeal had to consider whether s 5(2) of the Civil Law Act (Cap 43, 1999 Rev Ed) was a substantive or procedural......
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13 books & journal articles
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Contract Law
...PT Garuda Indonesia v Birgen Air[2002] 1 SLR 393 (also referred to supra, with regard to arbitration); Star City Pty Ltd v Tan Hong Woon[2002] 2 SLR 22 (considered in more detail infra, at paras 9.79 to 9.81, under “Illegality”); Hong Pian Tee v Les Placements Germain Gauthier Inc[2002] 2 S......
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Civil Procedure
...gaming contract, whether entered into or outside of Singapore (s 5(2) would apply in these instances: Star City Pty Ltd v Tan Hong Woon[2002] 2 SLR 22), and a claim brought upon a valid, final and conclusive foreign judgment which was founded on a gambling debt. His Honour considered that i......
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CITING LEGAL AUTHORITIES IN COURT
...3 SLR 593; Yusen Air & Sea Service (S) Pte Ltd v KLM Royal Dutch Airlines[1999] 4 SLR 21 and Star City Pty Ltd v Tan Hong Woon[2002] 2 SLR 22, and by the Singapore High Court in Lee Chuen Li v Singapore Island Country Club[1992] 2 SLR 900; Low Gim Siah v Law Society of Singapore[1992] 1 SLR......
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Contract Law
...in stone, least of which the public policy against the enforcement of gaming and wagering contracts. In Star City Pty Ltd v Tan Hong Woon[2002] 2 SLR 22 (‘Star City’) (previously noted at Andrew Phang, (2002) 3 SAL Annual Review 122 at paras 9.79—9.81), the Court of Appeal sought to provide......
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