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

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

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    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 24 July 2026
    ...applies to the other case to which Mr Venkatesan took the Court, namely WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka [2002] SGHC 104, another case involving an anti-suit injunction, in which Lee Seiu Kin JC observed at [65], as follows: “In my view I cannot ignore the acti......
  • 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......
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5 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......
  • 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 ......
  • Arbitration
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...SpA [2016] 5 SLR 455 at [28]. 27 [2014] 1 SLR 1028; see also (2013) 14 SAL Ann Rev 72 at 72–74, paras 4.1–4.7. 28 [2017] 3 SLR 267. 29 [2002] 1 SLR(R) 1088. 30 [2017] 3 SLR 357. 31 [2014] SGHCR 12. 32 See Piallo GmbH v Yafriro International Pte Ltd [2014] 1 SLR 1028, Cassa di Risparmio di P......
  • Conflict of Laws
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2002, December 2002
    • 1 December 2002
    ...outcome would have been the same. 8.46 The final case in this section is WSG Nimbus Pte Ltd v Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka[2002] 3 SLR 603. This complex case involved a Master Rights Agreement (MRA) under which the plaintiff obtained commercial rights to cricket matches between......
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