Void contracts and the applicability of choice of law clauses to consequential restitutionary Claims: Cimb Bank Bhd V Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd [2008] 4 SLR 543

Author

Adeline Swee Ling CHONG, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Case note/Digest

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

9-2009

Abstract

This note examines the Singapore Court of Appeal’s judgment in CIMB Bank Bhd v Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd, focusing specifically on what role, if any, should be played by a choice of law clause contained in a void contract in relation to the restitutionary aftermath of voidness.

Discipline

Asian Studies | Business Organizations Law | Comparative and Foreign Law | Contracts

Publication

Singapore Academy of Law Journal

Volume

21

Issue

2

First Page

545

Last Page

556

ISSN

0218-2009

Publisher

Singapore Academy of Law

Citation

CHONG, Adeline Swee Ling. Void contracts and the applicability of choice of law clauses to consequential restitutionary Claims: Cimb Bank Bhd V Dresdner Kleinwort Ltd [2008] 4 SLR 543. (2009). Singapore Academy of Law Journal. 21, (2), 545-556.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/920

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