ANG SOON YAM v 1. ) TI HOCK SENG 2. ) LIM HOO SENG 3. ) JUSTIN TI KAI SIONG 4. ) JEFFREY TI KAI JIM
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Civil Procedure — Preliminary issues — Order 33 r 2 & r 5 Rules of Court 2012 — Application for prior determination of limitation, pleading sufficiency and maintainability — Whether suitable for separate determination — Whether issues involve disputed questions of fact — Requirement of substantial saving of time and costs — Whether application would dispose of entire action — Whether application should be refused where issues intertwined with trial Civil Procedure — Determination of questions of law — Order 14A Rules of Court 2012 — Threshold of suitability — Whether question capable of determination without full trial — Whether issue dependent on factual inquiry — Distinction between pure question of law and mixed fact and law Civil Procedure — Case management — Late interlocutory application — Application filed after close of pleadings and fixing of trial dates — Whether delay a bar — Proper approach — Requirement to explain delay — Court’s discretion — Impact on trial timetable — Procedural discipline under Order 34 — Costs consequences Limitation — Limitation Act 1953 — Section 6 and section 29 — Fraud and postponement of limitation — Date of accrual — Date of discovery — Reasonable diligence — Whether limitation can be determined as preliminary issue — Whether limitation fact-sensitive — Whether issue intertwined with allegations of fraud and concealment Pleading — Fraud — Particulars — Order 18 r 12(1)(a) & (b) — Requirement of specificity — Whether pleading discloses sufficient material facts — Whether generalised or imperfect pleading fatal — Reading pleadings as a whole — Distinction between lack of particulars and absence of cause of action Pleading — Multiple defendants — Attribution of wrongdoing — Whether sufficient facts pleaded against individual defendant — Whether claim against one defendant can be struck out at interlocutory stage — Fraud and unjust enrichment — Sufficiency of pleaded factual nexus Evidence — Police investigation — No further action (NFA) — Effect on civil proceedings — Distinction between criminal and civil liability — Admissibility and evidential weight — Whether NFA determinative of civil claim — Relevance at interlocutory stage Practice — Order 33 — Abuse or misuse — Fragmentation of proceedings — Duplication of trial effort — Court’s duty to avoid unnecessary interlocutory adjudication — Emphasis on full trial where factual disputes predominate Costs — Interlocutory application — Late application — Unnecessary or premature application — Costs to reflect procedural burden — Discretion of Court
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