Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson & Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd

JurisdictionSingapore
CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)
Judgment Date07 August 2014
Docket NumberCivil Appeal No 126 of 2013
Date07 August 2014

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    ...Satku&Kumar Pte Ltd [1997] 3 SLR (R) 257; [1998] 2 SLR 83, HC (distd) Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson&Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2014] 4 SLR 357 (refd) Yam Seng Pte Ltd v International Trade Corp Ltd [2013] 1 Lloyd's Rep 526 (refd) Michael Palmer, Chew Kiat Jinn and Tan Gek Theng (Quah......
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    • High Court Appellate Division (Singapore)
    • 24 February 2022
    ...SLR 577 (“Cheah Peng Hock”), but also the Court of Appeal’s decision in Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2014] 4 SLR 357 (“Wee Kim San”). We accept that, in Cheah Peng Hock, Quentin Loh J (as he then was) stated in clear terms that, “unless there are express......
  • Kallivalap Praveen Nair v Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare Pte Ltd
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    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 18 October 2022
    ...1422 (folld) W A Goold (Pearmak) Ltd v McConnell [1995] IRLR 516 (refd) Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2014] 4 SLR 357 (folld) Woods v W M Car Services (Peterborough) Ltd [1982] ICR 693 (refd) Facts The defendant was a company incorporated in Singapore and......
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2 firm's commentaries
  • Allegations Of Whistleblowing In Wrongful Dismissal Claims
    • Singapore
    • Mondaq Singapore
    • 9 March 2022
    ...onerous obligation rule affirmed by the Singapore Court of Appeal in Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2014] 4 SLR 357. The Plaintiff appealed the District Court's decision not to award him damages on the basis that the District Court was wrong to find that h......
  • Allegations Of Whistleblowing In Wrongful Dismissal Claims
    • Singapore
    • Mondaq Singapore
    • 9 March 2022
    ...onerous obligation rule affirmed by the Singapore Court of Appeal in Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2014] 4 SLR 357. The Plaintiff appealed the District Court's decision not to award him damages on the basis that the District Court was wrong to find that h......
3 books & journal articles
  • FATE OF TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...Trust[2012] 2 AC 22. It has also been followed in Singapore: see Wee Kim San LawrenceBernard v Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd[2014] 4 SLR 357. 8 For a list of such situations see, for instance, Cheah Peng Hock v Luzhou Bio-Chem Technology Ltd[2013] 2 SLR 577 at [56]. 9Arul Chandran v Gar......
  • WORKPLACE HARASSMENT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...there is such a term seems to have been left open in the recent Court of Appeal decision of Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson & Co[2014] 4 SLR 357 at [30]. See also Ravi Chandran, “Fate of Trust and Confidence in Employment Contracts in Singapore”(2015) 27 SAcLJ 31. 38 [1996] 3 MLJ 33......
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2014, December 2014
    • 1 December 2014
    ...of mutual trust and confidence. 12.63 In the Court of Appeal decision of Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd[2014] 4 SLR 357, the court held that the concept of constructive dismissal and the implied term of mutual trust and confidence were distinct but related.......