EVIDENCE: Expert evidence
3 cases · March 2025 to December 2025
Key Issues & Sub-Topics
Admissibility and weight — Criteria for preferring one expert's evidence over another — Whether expert who declines to perform any valuation of subject matter is of material assistance to court on question of quantum — Whether expert's conclusion that expropriated rights had no value is internally inconsistent with judicial findings of oppression 1 Scientific evidence in edible oils chemistry — Lipid chemistry — Whether expert opinion supported by peer-reviewed scientific literature — Whether expert demonstrated proper understanding of chemical processes — Distinction between hydrolysis and oxidation as causes of oil degradation — Whether hydrolysis (moisture-induced) or oxidation (oxygen-induced) caused Free Fatty Acid formation — Whether expert conflated separate chemical processes — Weight to be attached to competing expert testimony — Whether expert evidence consistent with established scientific principles 1 Admissibility — Whether expert improperly made findings of fact — Whether expert opinion reliable despite alleged omissions — Weight to be accorded to expert testimony — Credibility of witnesses — Whether testimony based on documentary evidence admissible without personal knowledge of events 1
Admissibility and weight — Criteria for preferring one expert's evidence over another — Whether expert who declines to perform any valuation of subject matter is of material assistance to court on question of quantum — Whether expert's conclusion that expropriated rights had no value is internally inconsistent with judicial findings of oppression 1 case
Scientific evidence in edible oils chemistry — Lipid chemistry — Whether expert opinion supported by peer-reviewed scientific literature — Whether expert demonstrated proper understanding of chemical processes — Distinction between hydrolysis and oxidation as causes of oil degradation — Whether hydrolysis (moisture-induced) or oxidation (oxygen-induced) caused Free Fatty Acid formation — Whether expert conflated separate chemical processes — Weight to be attached to competing expert testimony — Whether expert evidence consistent with established scientific principles 1 case
Admissibility — Whether expert improperly made findings of fact — Whether expert opinion reliable despite alleged omissions — Weight to be accorded to expert testimony — Credibility of witnesses — Whether testimony based on documentary evidence admissible without personal knowledge of events 1 case
Key Statutes
Companies Act 1965 (Cap 777)
cited in 1 case Singapore Companies Act
cited in 1 case Companies Act 2016 (Cap 777)
cited in 1 case Rules of Court 2012
cited in 1 case Courts of Judicature Act 1964 (Cap 91)
cited in 1 case Court Distribution
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wa-22ncc-605-12-2020
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12 March 2025
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