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Multistar Holdings Ltd v Geocon Piling & Engineering Pte Ltd

[2016] SGCA 38; [2016] 2 SLR 1
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtSingapore Court of Appeal
Year2016
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Leave to amend pleadings to claim a different relief on an existing factual matrix does not introduce a new cause of action that is time-barred, because a 'cause of action' is the set of essential factual material founding the claim rather than the relief or remedy sought.

Area of Law

construction

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