A dispute over 30 years! This bad blood runs truly deep - and those legal fees....
http://www.supremecourt.gov.sg/docs...-2012---lee-tat---final-2017-sghc-121-pdf.pdf
Suit No 1087 of 2012 (“the Suit”) is the latest spar in a long-running legal saga between Lee Tat Development Pte Ltd (“Lee Tat”) and the management corporation of a condominium development known as Grange Heights (“the MCST”), regarding the use by the subsidiary proprietors of Grange Heights of a narrow strip of land which both the MCST and Lee Tat claimed they were entitled to use. Lee Tat in particular sought to exclude the use of the strip of land by the subsidiary proprietors. The dispute went on for over 30 years, the parties jousting with each other over five sets of proceedings (all of which were appealed to the Court of Appeal), and was eventually decided in Lee Tat’s favour by the Court of Appeal in 2008 (and affirmed in 2010).
In its judgment in Lee Tat Development Pte Ltd v Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No 301 [2009] 1 SLR(R) 875 (“Grange Heights (No 3) (CA)”), the Court of Appeal expressed the hope (at [16]) that that would be the final chapter in the fractious and fractured relationship between the parties. Unfortunately, those words were in vain, falling on deaf ears. Lee Tat has now ironically brought the Suit on the back of the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the fifth set of proceedings, suing the MCST in four causes of action: abuse of process, malicious prosecution, malicious falsehood and trespass.
Given the line-up of legal brains for each party, any wonder that the court expressed its exasperation in such terms:
"It would be desirable that, with the dismissal of the Suit, the parties close this protracted and convoluted chapter and move on to other productive endeavours."
Chelva R Rajah SC, Tham Lijing and Stephanie Tan (instructed counsel) (Tan Rajah & Cheah) and Balasubramaniam Ernest Yogarajah (Unilegal LLC) for the plaintiff; Tan Chee Meng SC, Sngeeta Rai and Ngiam Heng Hui Jocelyn (WongPartnership LLP) for the defendant.
http://www.supremecourt.gov.sg/docs...-2012---lee-tat---final-2017-sghc-121-pdf.pdf
Suit No 1087 of 2012 (“the Suit”) is the latest spar in a long-running legal saga between Lee Tat Development Pte Ltd (“Lee Tat”) and the management corporation of a condominium development known as Grange Heights (“the MCST”), regarding the use by the subsidiary proprietors of Grange Heights of a narrow strip of land which both the MCST and Lee Tat claimed they were entitled to use. Lee Tat in particular sought to exclude the use of the strip of land by the subsidiary proprietors. The dispute went on for over 30 years, the parties jousting with each other over five sets of proceedings (all of which were appealed to the Court of Appeal), and was eventually decided in Lee Tat’s favour by the Court of Appeal in 2008 (and affirmed in 2010).
In its judgment in Lee Tat Development Pte Ltd v Management Corporation Strata Title Plan No 301 [2009] 1 SLR(R) 875 (“Grange Heights (No 3) (CA)”), the Court of Appeal expressed the hope (at [16]) that that would be the final chapter in the fractious and fractured relationship between the parties. Unfortunately, those words were in vain, falling on deaf ears. Lee Tat has now ironically brought the Suit on the back of the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the fifth set of proceedings, suing the MCST in four causes of action: abuse of process, malicious prosecution, malicious falsehood and trespass.
Given the line-up of legal brains for each party, any wonder that the court expressed its exasperation in such terms:
"It would be desirable that, with the dismissal of the Suit, the parties close this protracted and convoluted chapter and move on to other productive endeavours."
Chelva R Rajah SC, Tham Lijing and Stephanie Tan (instructed counsel) (Tan Rajah & Cheah) and Balasubramaniam Ernest Yogarajah (Unilegal LLC) for the plaintiff; Tan Chee Meng SC, Sngeeta Rai and Ngiam Heng Hui Jocelyn (WongPartnership LLP) for the defendant.