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Swift-Fortune Ltd v Magnifica Marine SA

[2007] 1 SLR(R) 629; [2006] SGCA 42
JurisdictionSingapore
CourtSingapore Court of Appeal
Year2006
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Neither s 4(10) of the Civil Law Act nor s 12(7) of the International Arbitration Act gave the Singapore court a free-standing power to grant a Mareva injunction purely in aid of foreign arbitral proceedings where there was no substantive cause of action or in personam jurisdiction in Singapore.

Area of Law

Civil procedure — Mareva injunction — jurisdiction in aid of foreign proceedings

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