Yeo Guan Chye Terence and another v Lau Siew Kim

JurisdictionSingapore
Judgment Date12 January 2007
Date12 January 2007
Docket NumberSuit No 855 of 2005
CourtHigh Court (Singapore)

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12 cases
  • Lin Chao-Feng v Chuang Hsin-Yi
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 17 June 2010
    ... ... Taiwanese, and his wife, Mdm Tan Guan Ngo (“Mdm Tan”), a ... another, ... in ... Court of Appeal in Lau Siew Kim v Yeo Guan Chye Terence and ... ...
  • Yeo Guan Chye Terence and another v Lau Siew Kim
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 30 November 2007
    ...only the property at 18 Jalan Tari Payong. The trial judge’s decision 13 The trial judge held in Yeo Guan Chye Terence v Lau Siew Kim [2007] 2 SLR 1 (“the High Court decision”) that the existence of a resulting trust overrode the right of survivorship in the joint tenancies of both the Mint......
  • Tay Jui Chuan v Koh Joo Ann
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 19 August 2010
    ... ... First Grade and another" company, Inhil Investment Pte Ltd ... (\xE2" ... [1974] 1 Ch 269, Lau Siew Kim v Yeo Guan ... Chye ... ...
  • Wang Xiaopu v Koh Mui Lee
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 29 March 2023
    ...(refd) Wong Ser Wan v Ng Bok Eng Holdings Pte Ltd [2004] 4 SLR(R) 365; [2004] 4 SLR 365 (folld) Yeo Guan Chye Terence v Lau Siew Kim [2007] 2 SLR(R) 1; [2007] 2 SLR 1 (folld) Zaiton bte Adom v Nafsiah bte Wagiman [2022] SGHC 189 (folld) Facts The plaintiff (“Mdm Wang”) was in the business o......
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5 books & journal articles
  • Land Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...tenancy entitled her to claim the entire legal interest in the properties. 18.3 The High Court (see Yeo Guan Chye Terence v Lau Siew Kim[2007] 2 SLR 1, discussed in (2007) 8 SAL Ann Rev 329 at 329) found on the evidence that there was a resulting trust over the properties in question in the......
  • RESULTING TRUSTS IN SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2011, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...636. 32 Crown, “Trusts of HDB Flats” (1999) SJLS 635 at 636. 33 Cheong Yoke Kuen v Cheong Kwok Kiong [1999] 1 SLR(R) 1126 at [21]. 34 [2007] 2 SLR(R) 1. 35 Yeo Guan Chye Terence v Lau Siew Kim [2007] 2 SLR(R) 1 at [47]. 36 [2008] 2 SLR(R) 108. 37 Tang Hang Wu, “Equity and Trusts” [2007] 8 S......
  • Land Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...between the right of survivorship in a joint tenancy and a resulting trust was considered in Yeo Guan Chye Terence v Lau Siew Kim[2007] 2 SLR 1. More specifically, the issue in this regard was whether a resulting trust overrides the right of survivorship in a joint tenancy. 18.3 Lai Siu Chi......
  • Banking Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...departure from the English position concerning the issue of advancement in a wife”s favour? In Yeo Guan Chye Terence v Lau Siew Kim[2007] 2 SLR 1, Lai Siu Chiu J decided that a presumption of advancement in a wife”s favour was easily rebutted. Two sons from a testator”s first marriage sued ......
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