Tribune Investment Trust Inc. v Soosan Trading Company Ltd

JurisdictionSingapore
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)
Judgment Date07 July 2000
Docket NumberCivil Appeal No 91 of 1999
Date07 July 2000

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    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 25 September 2013
    ... ... : at [52] .] Amalgamated Investment & Property Co Ltd v Texas Commerce International ... ] 3 SLR 362 (refd) Sea-Land Service Inc v Cheong Fook Chee Vincent [1994] 3 SLR (R) 250 ... ; [2007] 3 SLR 133 (refd) Tribune Investment Trust Inc v Soosan Trading Co Ltd ... ’ of the Plaintiff's Indian associated company, whereas Jeffrey was a senior manager/trader of ... ...
  • Colliers International (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Senkee Logistics Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 26 March 2007
    ...the precise point at which a meeting of the minds appeared to have taken place: see Tribune Investment Trust Inc v Soosan Trading Co Ltd [2000] 3 SLR 405 at [40]. That said, in order to take into account the invariable fact that parties may strike a bargain before coming to full agreement o......
  • Fragrance Realty Pte Ltd v Rangoon Investment Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 28 March 2013
    ...236; [2000] 1 SLR 45 (not folld) Sturges v Bridgman (1879) 11 Ch D 852 (folld) Tribune Investment Trust Inc v Soosan Trading Co Ltd [2000] 2 SLR (R) 407; [2000] 3 SLR 405 (folld) TSM Development Pte Ltd v Leonard Stephanie Celine née Pereira [2005] 4 SLR (R) 721; [2005] 4 SLR 721 (folld) Xp......
  • Chwee Kin Keong and Others v Digilandmall.com Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 12 April 2004
    ...152 This view has also found support in the Singapore context. Yong Pung How CJ in Tribune Investment Trust Inc v Soosan Trading Co Ltd [2000] 3 SLR 405 at [40] [T]he function of the court is to try as far as practical experience allows, to ensure that the reasonable expectations of honest ......
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  • When Will The Breach Of Duty Exception Apply?
    • Singapore
    • Mondaq Singapore
    • 9 January 2024
    ...[80])). In reaching its decision, the High Court first examined the decision in Tribune Investment Trust Inc v Soosan Trading Co Ltd [2000] 2 SLR(R) 407, where the Court of Appeal approved of the following principle in cases of mistaken identity as ...To summarise, the principle espoused in......
19 books & journal articles
  • THE EFFECTIVE REACH OF CHOICE OF LAW AGREEMENTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...deconstruction of an arbitration clause”[2008] LMCLQ 1. 107 [2007] UKHL 40, [2007] 4 All ER 951, [2007] Bus LR 1719 at [27]. 108 [2000] 3 SLR 405 (CA) at [40]. See also Lord Steyn, “Contract Law: Fulfilling the Reasonable Expectations of Honest Men”(1997) 113 LQR 433. 109 [2006] 3 SLR 769 (......
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2018, December 2018
    • 1 December 2018
    ...evidence and contemporaneous conduct of the parties at the material time (Tribune Investment Trust Inc v Soosan Trading Co Ltd [2000] 2 SLR(R) 407 at [39]). The test for determining the existence of any such agreement is objective (at [40]). The Court of Appeal has also emphasized the impor......
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...with the Court of Appeal's adoption of the promisee-objectivity approach in Tribune Investment Trust Inc v Soosan Trading Co Ltd[2000] 2 SLR(R) 407 (‘Tribune Investment’), where the court said (at 422–423) that ‘the language used by one party, whatever his real intention may be, is to be co......
  • Tort Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...to interfere with the plaintiff's contractual rights knowingly: at [90], citing Tribune Investment Trust Inc v Soosan Trading Co Ltd[2000] 2 SLR(R) 407 (‘Tribune Investment’). The High Court had earlier found that, with regard to the plaintiff's separate claim, the defendants had dishonestl......
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