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iVenture Card Ltd v Big Bus Singapore City Sightseeing Pte Ltd

[2022] SGCA 40
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtSingapore Court of Appeal
Year2022
StatusBinding authority

Summary

Singapore Court of Appeal applied the radically different obligations test to determine whether COVID-19 restrictions frustrated commercial contracts for tourist bus services.

Key Principle

frustration of contract; effect of COVID-19 restrictions; radically different obligations test

Area of Law

contract

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