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From complex litigation to personal legal matters, we provide strategic counsel and representation across multiple practice areas. Hear directly from clients who trusted us with their most important legal challenges.
Great Eastern General Insurance Ltd and another v Next of Kin of Maripan Ponnusamy, deceased [2020] 5 SLR 933
Our client was a hard-working, responsible and diligent security personnel who usually worked the night shift. He was generally healthy to carry out his work but was diagnosed with hypertension and diabetes. One unfortunate day, while patrolling the grounds in the middle of the night, he fell.
No one saw him fall. He lay on the ground till someone came to him in the morning. He told the doctors that he felt like falling. The insurers disputed the cause of the fall claiming that it was an inherent cause. DLLC argued that he tripped and fell or he fainted due to fatigue.
We won for the client but the insurers appealed. We fought again persuading the Appellate Court that it was an accident as defined under the Work Injury Compensation Act (WICA).
China Taiping Insurance (Singapore) Pte Ltd and another v Low Yi Lian Cindy and others [2018] SGHC 2
Our clients’ father was a supervisor. He worked hard each day starting work at 7am till late. One fateful day, it was during the late afternoon tea break and one of his workers knocked on his door offering a cup of coffee.
Our client did not respond, and he was found motionless. Our clients were the dependants and made a claim.
The issue was whether Dependants could claim under the Act without letters of administration. The Appellate Court held that letters of administration were not necessary.
JP Choon Pte Ltd v Lal Offshore Marine Pte Ltd [2016] SGHC 115
The tenant had failed to pay the rental outstanding for the premises that they took from the landlord. The landlord sued for the rental outstanding, contractual interests, indemnity costs and the forfeiture of the security deposit.
DLLC argued for the tenant that forfeiture of the security deposit would be deemed a penalty clause if it was not utilised for a specific purpose.
Abdul Razak Bin Abdullah and another v Madivanan [2009] SGDC 198
Assessment of damages for fatal accident victim and their dependents.
Shareholder Agreement Dispute
(March 2021)
Our purchaser was a keen investor, investing and buying various businesses in Singapore. The Purchaser had their sight on a target company in the education business.
The purchaser and vendors entered into a sale and purchase agreement but shortly thereafter, there were problems with the financial statements, the representations and warranties provided by the vendors. Parties sued each other in the High Court.
Instead of a long-drawn battle in Court, DLLC successfully negotiated and mediated a deal where our client, the Purchaser saved close to S$1M and mostly acquired all the shares in the target company.
Merger and Acquisition
(February 2021)
Our client, one the founder shareholders in a tech company, is a young, clever and resourceful individual. She single-handedly ran the advertising campaign and brought in the traffic in millions of users to the site.
Venture capitalists recognised the potential and offered $100 Million as a deal. DLLC reviewed and advised on the Shareholder Agreement – DLLC acted for and protected our client in a $100M Merger and Acquisition by a US listed entity.
Franchising
(January 2021)
Our client is in the beauty business. During the Covid-19 lockdown, they started to notice that their local clientele for beauty services was increasing. The founder wanted to expand their business. DLLC advised to consider a licensing and franchise model to expand their business. Our client was successful to start its franchise in March 2021 and look out for more outlets.
Turning a Contested to an Uncontested Divorce
(July 2020)
This was a sad divorce case where parties had an angry and acrimonious relationship. Husband and wife could not agree on anything.
With DLLC’s guidance, we successfully avoided a contested divorce and steered parties to a long negotiations regarding the terms of the divorce. Negotiations started from around June 2019 and went on for more than a year till July 2020. Both parties managed to allow some concessions to each other and agreed to meet at a middle ground.
The divorce was eventually filed under a simplified divorce proceeding saving our client on legal costs.
Matrimonial Home Dispute
(April 2020)
This is a case where the husband disposed off the matrimonial home before commencing divorce proceedings against our client. Husband did it so that he did not have to pay a share to our client. He pocketed all the sale proceeds.
The wife got DLLC to sue her husband for her share of the sale proceeds. In the divorce suit, our client with DLLC was successful at winning care and control and even deciding which school the children could attend.
Contested Divorce
Our client, the mother of 2 young children, was fed-up with her uncooperative and irresponsible husband. She thought she could just get out of the relationship but the husband made it very difficult.
Her obstinate husband contested every step of the way, from a trial for the contested divorce to a contested ancillary hearing involving every single aspect from child custody, care and control, access and division of matrimonial assets.
After the long-drawn battle, DLLC successfully and skillfully obtained for our client her desired outcome. She got care of control of her children and a decent percentage of the division of the matrimonial home.
WICA vs Common Law
Our client was a lorry driver involved in industrial accident and he was injured while unloading some heavy items. He did not know how to make a work injury claim and how much he could receive. His original assessment under WICA was low at $38,000.
We reviewed his claim and advised to pursue his claim under common law. With our advice, our client successfully received $75,000, almost 2 times his initial claim amount in about 9 months.
Our client was so overjoyed, he thanked us so many times.
4 Times the Initial Claim Amount
Our client approached DLLC after receiving an exceptionally low assessment from WICA. With an issued notice of assessment of about $6,000 and with extremely limited time to act, he was dissatisfied and confused about what do no next. Timing was critical.
Having reviewed his industrial accident claim and advised him to pursue a claim under common law, DLLC ultimately settled the claim at $23,000, about 4 times the initially awarded amount under WICA.
Twice the Initial Claim Amount
Our client slipped and fall at his workplace. He approached us for help. He was assessed under WICA to receive about $21,000. With the experience of our lawyers, DLLC assessed his claim and advised him to object to his notice of assessment on the quantum. After his medical board review within 3 months, his assessment was increased to $41,000. It was about 2 times of his initial claim amount.
Additional Claims for Undetected Injuries
Our client suffered some serious injuries but due to the severity of his main injuries, some of his other less serious injuries went undetected which meant that his claim assessment was much lower. We helped him to retrieve the necessary medical evidence to support his additional injuries claims.
With some persistence, DLLC successfully increased his claims from $32,000 to $71,000 more than 2X his initial claim.