Singapore Leading Case uncategorized

Industrial Commercial Bank Ltd v Tan Swa Eng

[1995] 2 SLR(R) 385 (also reported [1995] 2 SLR 716)

JurisdictionSingapore

CourtCourt of Appeal (Singapore)

Year1995

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The law of occupiers' liability in Singapore is derived from English common law (the English occupiers'-liability statutes not applying), so an occupier is liable to an invitee for unusual dangers he knew or ought to have known of and which the invitee did not know about.

Area of Law

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