Jenny Prawesti v Sauw Tjiauw Koe

Trusts — Express trusts — Certainties — Whether a letter of indemnity sufficiently identifies the subject matter of the purported trust; Trusts — Express trusts — Certainties — Whether a letter of indemnity sufficiently evinces a putative settlor’s intention to create a trust; Trusts — Resulting trusts — Sole financial responsibility for 25 of the properties fell on the mother — Whether there was a resulting trust in the mother’s favour; Trusts — Constructive trusts — Common intention constructive trusts — Daughter alleged that her mother made an oral representation over 20 years ago that they would purchase properties together as equal owners in the future, while the mother alleged that she had always told the daughter that she was only borrowing the daughter’s name for the properties — Whether there was a common intention for either party to hold their various legal interests in the 26 properties on trust for the other