Party-and-Party costs cover not just legal fees charged by the lawyer for services rendered, but also expenses like disbursements such as filing fees, court fees, transport charges, photocopying charges, etc.
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The Singapore legal system has in recent years come up with toolkits, information, booklets, and webpages dedicated to supporting self-representation in Court. While it is granted that self-representation is the cheaper option, it may not be such a great idea if you do not achieve your desired results and lose the case in Court.
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Whether you’re signing off on a simple tenancy agreement or a multi-million dollar joint venture agreement, contracts are part and parcel of life and business.
Many disputes and problems can be avoided if you read your contracts properly, with a keen eye for detail and some knowledge of legal terminology. Of course, the best thing to do would be to approach a lawyer to review a contract you are about to enter into. Lawyers are familiar with contract law and have developed a keen understanding of various types of clauses and how to draft them, even challenge them. Lawyers may also negotiate for amendments to terms and conditions in the contract which are not favourable to you.
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These claims are typically called remedies for breach of contract. There are 2 types of remedies – common law remedies and equitable remedies.
• Common law remedies include damages and quantum meruit.
• Equitable remedies include specific performance and injunctions.
The main practical difference between these 2 types of remedies is that equitable remedies are at the discretion of the courts – even when you win the case in court, the court may decline to award equitable remedies, but it must always allow for common law damages to be claimed and awarded, because damages are available ‘as of right’.
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So You Want To Sue Someone – Things to Consider Before You Sue
Here at Lions Chambers LLC, we advise our clients to commence civil litigation in the courts only if it makes commercial sense or if it has a reasonable prospect of succeeding. There are many factors we take into consideration.
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There are 4 ways of doing so.
If you completely undertake any of these 4 methods,
• your name will be either completely and immediately removed from the bankruptcy register (and thus not searchable by the public), which an Annulment; or
• you will become an Undischarged Bankrupt, which means your name is still on the bankruptcy register and will be removed only after some time.
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Have you lent a sum of money to a friend or relative through an IOU but have yet to receive the money-back? Or have you provided a business service or goods to a client, and they have yet to make the payment. You have asked and asked, but all to no avail. What will you do next? This article will aim to help you out if you are ever in this situation.
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Have you lent a sum of money to a friend or relative through an IOU but have yet to receive the money back? Or have you provided a business service or goods to a client and they have yet to make the payment. You have asked and asked but all to no avail. What will you do next? This article will aim to help you out if you are ever in this situation.
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It is no wonder that personal debt is on the rise, with Singapore once again being crowned the most expensive city in the world for seven years straight. The mean average debt of a Singaporean household is about S$55,000 as banks see more people taking out loans to fund hefty purchases like cars, houses or university education. However, a problematic debt arises when consumers struggle to make repayments. If you find yourself in a situation with a debtor who keeps making delayed payments or is unable to make repayments, the lawyers at Lions Chambers LLC can assist you in exploring available options.
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The whole purpose of incorporating a company is to create a new legal entity – if the company owes money or found liable for something, only the company’s assets may be tapped into to repay the debt or pay damages, not the directors’ assets.
However, as shown below, some circumstances exist where you can make a company director personally liable for a company’s debts:
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