Proposed safeguards
THE Law Ministry had made several recommendations to protect monies entrusted to lawyers by buyers and sellers of properties. On Tuesday, it proposed that all payments for property deals will, in...
View ArticleCheated of property and $1.2m
CHEATED of their property when their lawyer forged their signatures to seize ownership, three brothers had to come up with another $700,000 to prevent the bank from selling off the building. Yesterday,...
View ArticleAvoid multiple-client cases, lawyers told
A COURT of Three Judges has expressed concern about lawyers representing multiple clients in the same case after one lawyer was suspended for a year for professional misconduct. In issuing its...
View ArticleNot remorseful? Prosecution seeks stiffer sentence
Mr Lee Kok Leong had vandalised his neighbours’ padlocks over an en bloc sale dispute. — ST PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA THE former management committee chairman of Laguna Park has already been fined $1,200...
View ArticleBid to stop re-routing of road rejected
A SPAT between two developers about the re-routing of an access road has gone all the way to the Court of Appeal. Both Pacific Rover and Yickvi Realty have condominium projects on adjoining parcels of...
View ArticleDoes 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...
View ArticleDispute 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....
View Article$4.8m dispute: Widow wants to move on
The property at the centre of the tussle has since been demolished and rebuilt. — ST FILE PHOTO ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM Madam Chen (left) and her late husband’s elder brother had been involved in a...
View ArticleS’pore: The future global arbitration hub for Asia
Its convenient location, judicial support and transparent system make it attractive to firms A YEAR on from the dramatic collapse of Lehman Brothers, many companies have treaded through the times of...
View ArticleIdeal Accommodation’s appeal dismissed
The High Court on Thursday dismissed Ideal Accommodation’s appeal against a court order to pay Cove Development rental arrears amounting to over $872,000. The sum represents approximately two months of...
View ArticleLawyer ordered to return $300,000 over failed deal
A BUSINESSMAN who lost his investment in a property deal and sued the lawyer involved managed to obtain $300,000 out of the $1 million invested. Mr Satinder Singh Garcha said he was talked into...
View ArticleApex court clears air on property deal
FAILING to sign the option-to-purchase form may not be enough to let one pull out of a property deal. This is especially so if the buyer’s deposit has been banked in and there are e-mail exchanges to...
View ArticleProperty agent jailed for acting as fall guy
A PROPERTY agent who took the rap for an unlicensed driver’s offence of running a red light was jailed for three months yesterday. Leung Man Kwan, 34, accepted $1,000 to take the fall for Ms Evangeline...
View ArticleMissing lawyer squirrelled away more than $10m
RUNAWAY lawyer Zulkifli Mohd Amin had moved more than $10 million out of his firm’s client’s account over a 10-month period in 2007, a sum larger than the $6 million previously thought. These details...
View ArticleS’poreans in JB housing nightmare back in court
Singaporean Norsiah Suja’i thought she had found her dream home when she forked out her life savings to buy a double-storey terrace house in Johor Baru in 1998 for more than RM335,000 (S$141,500 now)....
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