Pleadings

7 cases · December 2025 to April 2026

Case Volume by Year

2
25
5
26
2025–2026

Key Issues & Sub-Topics

Binding effect — Whether court confined to pleaded issues — Whether unpleaded matters may be relied upon — Interaction between pleading principles and procedural applications under Order 33. 1 O.78 r.2(3) Rules of Court 2012 — Mandatory requirement to particularise justification and fair comment — Bare pleading without particulars defective and fatal to defences. 1 Parties bound by pleadings — Unpleaded issues — Requirement of specific pleading 1 Bound by pleadings — Departure from pleaded case — Plaintiff pleaded friendly loan to corporate entity but testified loan was to deceased individually — Plaintiff withdrew claim against principal debtor mid-trial — Whether fatal to the Plaintiff's case — Whether secondary claim against guarantor collapses without amendment to pleadings. Locus standi — Representative capacity — Estate of deceased — Action commenced against deceased's son — No letters of administration extracted — Whether Defendant had legal capacity to be sued — Whether action was incompetent and a nullity ab initio — Rules of Court 2012, Order 15 Rule 6A — Probate and Administration Act 1959. 1 Parties bound by pleadings — Attempt to introduce occupiers’ liability at appellate stage — Impermissible 1 Special damages — Legal costs for extracting grant of letters of administration — Failure to specifically plead in statement of claim — Lee Tai Kau & Anor v. Rajanderan A/L Manickam & Anor applied — Claim dismissed 1 Burden of proof — Defendant’s entire case predicated on accuracy of utility mapping — Onus on defendant to prove its defence — Failure to discharge onus 1

Binding effect — Whether court confined to pleaded issues — Whether unpleaded matters may be relied upon — Interaction between pleading principles and procedural applications under Order 33. 1 case

O.78 r.2(3) Rules of Court 2012 — Mandatory requirement to particularise justification and fair comment — Bare pleading without particulars defective and fatal to defences. 1 case

Parties bound by pleadings — Unpleaded issues — Requirement of specific pleading 1 case

Parties bound by pleadings — Attempt to introduce occupiers’ liability at appellate stage — Impermissible 1 case

Burden of proof — Defendant’s entire case predicated on accuracy of utility mapping — Onus on defendant to prove its defence — Failure to discharge onus 1 case

Key Statutes

Rules of Court 2012
cited in 4 cases
Evidence Act 1950
cited in 2 cases
Defamation Act 1957
cited in 1 case
cited in 1 case
cited in 1 case
cited in 1 case
Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994
cited in 1 case
cited in 1 case
Penal Code (Cap 574)
cited in 1 case

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