Ronald JJ Wong, Author at RONALD JJ WONG

September 8, 2016September 8, 2016

Book Review: Dev Menon, Stirring Stale Waters: How Martin Luther Helps Us Find Joy In Our Baptism

Just finished reading Dev Menon‘s “Stirring Stale Waters: How Martin Luther Helps Us Find Joy In Our Baptism”.

I dare say this is the best treatment of baptism I have ever come across (well, I haven’t come across that many).

It is accessible: at only 80 short pages, I finished it in less than an hour.

It is pastoral: I finished it feeling like having gone through baptism was one of the best things that happened to me. He addresses various typical attitudes to baptism: (i) those who feel they are never good enough for it; (ii) those who were confident of their faith, fell away, and now wants a restart; (iii) those who think baptism is unnecessary; (iv) those who question child baptism; and (v) those of us who sit through baptism services feeling like it’s completely irrelevant to us.

It is theological: Dev draws from the wells of the Reformation dude, Martin Luther (incidentally, it’s the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation next year) but simplifies it for us.

I shamelessly plug for him. Read this book. You will cherish your baptism. You will want to be baptised. You will rejoice at every baptism service. Because you will know the promise of God that you are His beloved.

It only costs S$10. Get a copy from him at dev@zionbishan.org.sg.

August 28, 2016

Case Update: Success Elegant Trading Limited v La Dolce Vita Fine Dining Company – SGHC upholds pre-action discovery order in aid of foreign arbitration under O 24 r 6

Success Elegant Trading Limited v La Dolce Vita Fine Dining Company [2016] SGHC 159

The Singapore High Court, per Andrew Ang SJ, upheld the Assistant Registrar’s decision in La Dolce Vita Fine Dining Co Ltd v Deutsche Bank AG [2016] SGHC 3 in ordering pre-action discovery of customer bank account information against two banks in respect of their customer’s alleged fraudulent misrepresentations.

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August 28, 2016

Case Update: ACTAtek, Inc v Tembusu Growth Fund Ltd: SGCA holds wrongful call of event of default as anticipatory repudiatory breach of contract

ACTAtek, Inc and another v Tembusu Growth Fund Ltd [2016] SGCA 50 PDF

This case concerned a venture capital fund, Tembusu Growth Fund Ltd (“Tembusu“), suing an investee company ACTAtek Inc., which is part of a group of companies providing identification management solution, under the tort of misrepresentation in relation to two convertible loan agreements and its plan to list on the New Zealand stock exchange. The Singapore Court of Appeal reversed the High Court’s decision below, holding that the venture capital fund was in anticipatory repudiatory breach of the contract by wrongly calling events of default such that the investee company’s plan to list on the NZ stock exchange was derailed. The Court considered the interesting point of law being “what are the legal consequences that flow if an event of default is found to have been wrongly declared and damages are suffered as a result?” ([at [2]). The decision also traversed other issues of law including misrepresentation and the application of Sembcorp Marine Ltd v PPL Holdings Pte Ltd [2013] 4 SLR 193 principles regarding implied terms in contract.

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August 22, 2016January 29, 2018

Advocating for Survivors of ISIS’s Genocide of Christians and Yzidis in Syria and Comforting the Oppressed and Trafficked in the Middle East

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ALf_6FLNg44

This short film tells the stories of many Syrian Christians who watched their loved ones tortured and killed at the hands of men who hated their religion and their God. The martyrs were unfazed at the hands of their tormentors. “I am blessed because I am persecuted for my Yeshua,” cried a lady who was tied to a pole in the middle of the street in Aleppo, spat on and punched day after day. A man was crucified in the city, having the glory to die in the same manner as his own saviour. These were the stories I heard tonight from Jacqueline and Yvette Isaac, a mother-daughter team of Egyptian Christians who started Roads of Success, a humanitarian NGO which provides support and care to the downtrodden and oppressed, and advocates for those whose stories have been suppressed.

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August 15, 2016August 17, 2016

Lausanne Movement YLG 2016 Reflections

“United in the Great Story!“

The past 9 days 8 nights have forever changed my life, and will probably also change the course of the world. 1,300 participants from 160 nations gathered in Indonesia for the Lausanne Movement’s Young Leaders Gathering 2016.

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July 29, 2016July 29, 2016

Case Update: Singapore Medical Council v Wong Him Choon [2016] SGHC 145 – Court of Three Judges reprimands and disciplines doctor for disregarding migrant worker’s medical interests

Singapore Medical Council v Wong Him Choon [2016] SGHC 145

Significance: The Court of Three Judges reversed the decision of the Disciplinary Tribunal (DT) on appeal by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) and held that the medical doctor, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon from Raffles Hospital, had breached his ethical duties to the patient, a migrant construction worker, by issuing inadequate medical leave (MCs) in disregard of the patient’s interests and having regard instead for extraneous interests such as those of the worker’s employer.
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July 11, 2016July 25, 2016

Legislative Update: Bill to legislate law on contempt of court

The Administration of Justice (Protection) Bill was introduced in Parliament today (11 July 2016). It seeks to legislate the law on contempt of court, which includes the sub judice and scandalising the court rules, and the rules on non-compliance with court orders. Some significant points to note about the Bill are as follows.

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July 8, 2016

MCST Plan No 3322 v Tiong Aik Construction Pte Ltd – SGCA holds no non-delegable duties on construction professionals

MCST Plan No 3322 v Tiong Aik Construction Pte Ltd [2016] SGCA 40

Significance: Singapore Court of Appeal held that the architect and builder / main contractor is not subject to a non-delegable duty in tort to ensure that the building and design of a building was carried out without negligence on the part of any of their sub-contractors: MCST Plan No 3322 v Tiong Aik Construction Pte Ltd [2016] SGCA 40. The Court also held that moving forward, to demonstrate that a non-delegable duty arises on a particular set of facts, a claimant must minimally be able to satisfy the court either that: (a) the facts fall within one of the established categories of non-delegable duties; or (b) the facts possess all the features described at [58] above.

In this case, RSP Architects and Tiong Aik Construction were sued by The Seaview’s MCST.
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July 5, 2016

Shi Wen Yue v Shi Minjiu and another [2016] SGHCR 8 – HC AR holds Chinese judicial settlement enforceable

Shi Wen Yue v Shi Minjiu and another [2016] SGHCR 8 – AR holds that PRC judicial settlement enforceable not as a foreign judgment but an agreement

Significance: An AR exercising powers as a High Court judge held that a mediation paper / judicial settlement made in Chinese proceedings pursuant to a settlement could be enforced in the Singapore court not as a foreign judgment based on the application of the laws of China, but an agreement under the common law.

July 5, 2016

Beyonics Technology Ltd v Goh Chan Peng [2016] – HC rules on causation for equitable compensation

Beyonics Technology Ltd v Goh Chan Peng [2016] SGHC 120 – HC rules on causation for equitable compensation

Significance: in this murky area of the law of equity and trusts, Hoo Sheau Peng JC decided that the causation rule for awarding equitable compensation for breach of fiduciary duties involving the core fiduciary obligations of acting in the best interests of the principal would be the less strict approach taken by the Privy Council in the Brickenden v London Loan & Savings Co of Canada [1934] 3 DLR 465 (“Brickenden”) decision and discussed in previous SGHC decisions of Quality Assurance Management Asia Pte Ltd v Zhang Qing [2013] 3 SLR 631 (HC) (“Quality Assurance”) and Then Khek Koon v Arjun Permanad Samtani [2014] 1 SLR 245 (HC) (“Then Khek Koon”).
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