RSP Architects Planners & Engineers v Ocean Front Pte Ltd

A builder owes a duty of care in tort to subsequent purchasers of a building for pure economic loss arising from latent defects, where there is sufficient proximity and the imposition of a duty is just and reasonable. Singapore departed from the English Murphy v Brentwood DC no-duty position, adopting a two-stage proximity-plus-policy approach that foreshadowed the later Spandeck framework.