Setting Aside a Default Judgment: New Developments in Singapore

• Main Author: GOH, Yihan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Default judgments; setting aside; Singapore; courts; discretionary power; Asian Studies; Courts
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1351; http://www.supremecourt.gov.sg/docs/default-source/default-document-library/sjc/gyh_cp_3.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The rationale underlying the court's discretionary power to set aside a default judgment is easy to state. Where a claim is determined as a consequence of a party's failure to comply with procedural rules, that determination ought not necessarily be determinative. It ought not because the...