Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2016
Abstract
The plaintiff in Tan Bee Hock v F G Builders Pte Ltd was riding a motorbike when he skidded on a metal plate placed by the defendantat the entrance to a condominium. The plaintiff sued for his injuries in negligence, nuisance, and breach of statutory duty. On the facts, Kannan Ramesh JC (as his Honour then was) found that there was nothing unsafe about the metal plate and dismissed the claims in nuisance and negligence. Having found that the defendants had not done anything unsafe, Ramesh JC also dismissed the breach of statutory duty action, and in doing so, observed that even if the defendant had breached the Code of Practice for Traffic Control at Work Zone (2006 Ed), this code was not intended to give rise to a private cause of action, being designed only to offer practical guidance on traffic safety rather than to impose legal obligations.
Keywords
Torts, tort law, Singapore
Discipline
Asian Studies | Torts
Research Areas
Private Law
Publication
Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases
Volume
17
First Page
656
Last Page
708
ISSN
0219-6638
Publisher
Singapore Academy of Law
Citation
AMIRTHALINGAM, Kumaralingam and CHAN, Gary Kok Yew.
Tort law. (2016). Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases. 17, 656-708.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2342
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