Matter
DLS v DLT (Singapore High Court [2025] SGHC 61)
An ICC arbitration between an anonymised main contractor and subcontractor over project delays, with Singapore court proceedings on interim payments, award classification, and alleged arbitrator bias.
Procedural record
- 19 June 2024Singapore
19 June 2024Singapore
First Partial Award dated 19 June 2024
International Chamber of Commerce
- Decision summary
- The tribunal ordered monthly payments of US$172,135.54 subject to security and ordered payment of US$117,339.48 to the subcontractor, while treating the monthly payment decision as interim and subject to review in the Final Award.
Participants
DLS
DLT
International Chamber of Commerce
9 months and 22 days later · 295 days
- 10 April 2025Singapore
10 April 2025Singapore
Grounds of decision of the General Division of the High Court of Singapore in the case Originating Application No 1185 of 2024 and Summons No 316 of 2025 dated 10 April 2025
General Division of the High Court of Singapore
- Citation
- [2025] SGHC 61
- Decision summary
- The court dismissed the contractor's application to set aside the First Partial Award and dismissed the application to introduce apparent bias as a new setting-aside ground. It held that the monthly payment decision was a non-reviewable interim order or direction, while the lump-sum payment decision was an award susceptible to setting aside; the alleged apparent bias ground was not allowed and would have failed on the merits.
Participants
- Application
- Originating Application No 1185 of 2024 — Dismissed
- Application
- Summons No 316 of 2025 — Dismissed
DLS
- Representative
- Prakash Pillai (For: DLS)
- Representative
- Koh Junxiang (For: DLS)
- Representative
- Ng Pi Wei (For: DLS)
DLT
- Representative
- Chou Sean Yu (For: DLT)
- Representative
- Oh Sheng Loong (For: DLT)
- Representative
- Wong Zheng Hui Daryl (For: DLT)
- Representative
- Neela Alagusundaram (For: DLT)
General Division of the High Court of Singapore
- Judge
- Andre Maniam