The lack of a time bar: An injustice within unjust enrichment claims – Esben Finance Ltd and others v Wong Hou-Lianq Neil [2022] 1 SLR 136

Authors

Jie Loong TAN, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Case note/Digest

Publication

Singapore Law Journal (Lexicon) (Reissue)

Publication Date

6-2023

Abstract

Limitation periods refer to the period within which a claimant who has a right to claim against another person, i.e., the defendant, must begin court proceedings to establish that right. Once that period has passed, the defendant can no longer be sued on that particular action. This is to prevent the threat of an action from continually hanging over the defendant such that once the limitation period has passed, the defendant can be sure that the claimant is no longer able to sue.

Disciplines

Asian Studies | Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Law

Subject(s)

Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship

ISSN/ISBN

2737-5048

Publisher

SMU Lexicon, SMU School of Law

Version

publishedVersion

Copyright Holder

Singapore Management University

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Format

application/PDF

Citation

TAN, Jie Loong. The lack of a time bar: An injustice within unjust enrichment claims – Esben Finance Ltd and others v Wong Hou-Lianq Neil [2022] 1 SLR 136. (2023). Singapore Law Journal (Lexicon) (Reissue). 3, 184-201.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sljlexicon/25

Volume

3

Page

184-201