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Dispute over dead man’s house resolved

Posted on 16 Oct 2009 | Comments Off on Dispute over dead man’s house resolved

Wife will keep the $4.8m proceeds from property which his brother sold
While Madam Chen could not prove that her husband had paid for the house, the court ruled in her favour based on the title deed. (left) — ST FILE PHOTOS
Mr Loo Chay Sit claimed that he had paid for the property and his late brother had held it in trust for him  (right)– ST FILE PHOTOS

THE wife of a Singaporean who died in a United States jail will get to keep the $4.8million from a house sold by his elder brother but which she said was owned by her husband.

The Margate Road property at the centre of the ownership spat was registered in the younger Mr Charles Loo Chay Loo’s name when it was bought in 1979 but the elder Mr Loo Chay Sit and their parents had lived there since 1999. Continue reading →

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Does Court of Appeal have powers to reopen own case?

Posted on 10 Oct 2009 | Comments Off on Does Court of Appeal have powers to reopen own case?

A CIVIL suit before the courts in Singapore has set a landmark poser.

The issue: Does the highest court in the land have the powers to reopen and set aside its own judgments?

It pitted one top lawyer against another in the High Court, in a debate behind closed doors before Justice Choo Han Teck on Wednesday.

He has reserved judgment.

The issue began in 2005, when a three-judge panel in the Court of Appeal ruled in a 2-1 decision that residents of Grange Heights condominium could use an access path leading to their development.

The path runs through a Grange Road property owned by Lee Tat Development.

In 2007, when Grange Heights went to the High Court to ask for a ruling on its building of a proper road, the court said it saw no need to do this, as the matter was bound by the 2005 ruling. Continue reading →

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