Tan Chin Seng and Others v Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd
| Jurisdiction | Singapore |
| Judge | Chao Hick Tin JA |
| Judgment Date | 16 July 2002 |
| Neutral Citation | [2002] SGCA 35 |
| Citation | [2002] SGCA 35 |
| Date | 16 July 2002 |
| Year | 2002 |
| Plaintiff Counsel | Tong Beng Teck Roland and Wang Shao-Ing ( Wong, Tan & Molly Lim ) |
| Docket Number | Civil Appeal No 51 of 2002 |
| Defendant Counsel | K Shanmugam SC and Boey Swee Siang ( Allen & Gledhill ) |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Singapore) |
| Published date | 19 September 2003 |
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28 cases
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Sim Cheng Soon v BT Engineering Pte Ltd and Another
...satisfied, inter alia, the central criterion of relevance (laid down in numerous cases such as Tan Chin Seng v Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd [2002] 3 SLR 345). Conclusion 17 In our view, all three conditions set out in Ladd v Marshall have been satisfied. We therefore allow the application, and......
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UMCI Ltd v Tokio Marine & Fire Insurance Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd and Others
...for discovery in such circumstances. She relies upon the decision of the Court of Appeal in Tan Chin Seng v Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd [2002] 3 SLR 345 (“Raffles Town Club”) in this 70 In my judgment, no exception can be taken with the principles articulated in Raffles Town Club. The followi......
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Sanae Achar v Sci-Gen Ltd
...must fulfil certain requirements. First, the document must be relevant (see Tan Chin Seng and others v Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd [2002] 2 SLR(R) 465 (“Tan Chin Seng”) at [18]). In respect of discovery of specific documents, O 24 r 5(3) of the Rules of Court describes a relevant document to ......
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Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG v Asia Pacific Breweries (Singapore) Pte Ltd and Other Applications
...1 SLR 169 (folld) Ng Giok Oh v Sajjad Akhtar [2003] 1 SLR (R) 375; [2003] 1 SLR 375 (refd) Tan Chin Seng v Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd [2002] 2 SLR (R) 465; [2002] 3 SLR 345 (folld) Evidence Act (Cap 97, 1997 Rev Ed) s 5A Rules of Court (Cap 322, R 5, 2004 Rev Ed) O 24 rr 6 (3), 7 Supreme Cou......
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5 books & journal articles
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Contract Law
...consideration as well as mistake, see infra, paras 9.5, 9.16 and 9.61—9.66 respectively); Tan Chin Seng v Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd[2002] 3 SLR 345, reversing (in part) the High Court”s decision reported at [2002] 3 SLR 403 (and on related proceedings relating to “Misrepresentation”, see in......
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Civil Procedure
...the most significant case on discovery reported in 2002 was the Court of Appeal decision in Tan Chin Seng v Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd[2002] 3 SLR 345, where the Court of Appeal clarified a number of issues related to discovery. The court noted that O 24 r 1 had been amended and that documen......
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Civil Procedure
...on the facts of each case. Support for this was drawn from the Court of Appeal decision in Tan Chin Seng v Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd[2002] 3 SLR 345 where the Court of Appeal stated that the concept of a ‘train of inquiry’, while no longer relevant to general discovery, was still relevant t......
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ACCESS TO JUSTICE: A CASE FOR CONTINGENCY FEES IN SINGAPORE
...Boulle & Nesic, supra, n 260 at p 65. 266 As pointed out by the Singapore Court of Appeal in Tan Chin Seng v Raffles Town Club Pte Ltd[2002] 3 SLR 345, whereas the former rules governing discovery prescribed open-ended criteria which gave rise to abuses and difficulties in application, the ......
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