WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date13 May 2002
Date13 May 2002
Docket NumberOriginating Summons No 601627 of (Summons in Chambers No 600107 of 2002)
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)

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25 cases
  • John Reginald Stott Kirkham v Trane US Inc.
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 15 July 2009
    ...not as relevant (see The Angelic Grace [1995] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 87 at 96 and WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka [2002] 3 SLR 603 at [91]). However, as far as the present case was concerned, this element did not come into play as there was no such agreement between th......
  • Anzen Ltd and Others v Hermes One Ltd (British Virgin Islands)
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 18 January 2016
    ...parties, the matters in dispute can be resolved in the courts." 23 The decision of the Singapore High Court in WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka [2002] 3 SLR 603 is also against analysis I. Clause 19 of the relevant agreement, entitled "LAW/ARBITRATION", was in......
  • Spliethoff's Bevrachtingskantoor BV v Bank of China Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 17 April 2015
    ...the English and BVI courts, and in the light of the way in which the Krygyz courts dealt with the case." 133 In WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka [2002] WGHC 104, the Singapore High Court held that in circumstances where the defendant had been aware of an anti-s......
  • William Jacks & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd v Nelson Honey & Marketing (NZ) Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 16 September 2015
    ...to the position obtaining in Singapore. The starting point is of course WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka [2002] 1 SLR(R) 1088. The plaintiff contracted with the defendant for the commercial rights to certain cricket matches; the contract provided for arbitratio......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Drafting an effective international arbitration agreement – tricks and traps
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 29 July 2016
    ...Ltd & Ors v Hermes One Ltd (British Virgin Islands) [2016] UKPC 1; WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka [2002] 3 SLR 603; Oakton Services Pty Ltd v Tenix Solutions IMES Pty Ltd [2010] VSC 11 Comandate Marine Corp v Pan Australia Shipping Pty Ltd [2006] FCAFC 19......
13 books & journal articles
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...3 SLR 326 (also referred to infra, with regard to the conflict of laws); WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka[2002] 3 SLR 603 (see also at 637 for a succinct analysis of the general policy underlying the International Arbitration Act (Cap 143A, 1995 Ed)); and Koh B......
  • BREACH OF AGREEMENT VERSUS VEXATIOUS, OPPRESSIVE AND UNCONSCIONABLE CONDUCT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...centre of analysis. 65The Angelic Grace[1995] 1 Lloyd's Rep 87 at 96; WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka[2002] 1 SLR(R) 1088; Yeo Tiong Min, “Party Autonomy in International Civil Litigation: Singapore Law”, Centre for Legal Dynamics of Advanced Market Societies ......
  • Arbitration
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...(‘CLA’), which may include the issuance of an anti-suit injunction (see WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka[2002] 3 SLR 603 where Lee Seiu Kin J used s 12(1)(i) of the International Arbitration Act (Cap 143A, 1995 Rev Ed) as the basis for doing so; see also Japan ......
  • THE HAGUE JUDGMENTS CONVENTION
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December - January 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...Technology (Kunshan) Co Ltd v Aksa Far East Pte Ltd [2014] 2 SLR 545; WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka [2002] 1 SLR(R) 1088. 41 Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act (Cap 265, 2001 Rev Ed) s 5(2)(a)(iii). 42 For a general understanding of the defences......
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