Saw Wei Siang

On the court record

Saw Wei Siang appears in the reported corpus as a civil and commercial litigator, with civil procedure, land fraud and strata-management accounting among the reported matters across the High Court and Court of Appeal. His procedural work is visible in competing applications by the parties under Order 14A of the Rules of Court 2012 for the disposal of a case on a point of law, where the question was whether the issues constituted pure questions of law suitable for determination without a full trial. He was also engaged as respondent's counsel in a substantial land-fraud appeal, where the High Court had found against a group of individuals, a firm of solicitors and the Land Registry and its officers for their involvement, and the appeals tested those findings of liability.

His reported work also reaches the accounting mechanisms of strata management. In a set of Court of Appeal appeals concerning a management agreement he was engaged where the court addressed the liability period covered by a "Account and Inquiry" ordered against a party, holding that the High Court had erred in amending the liability period and that, under clause 8.1.1 of the management agreement, the agreement continued until the expiry of the licence period specified in the last work order, so that the maintenance fee payable depended on the correct construction of that period. The matter was remitted for further account and inquiry into the liability period not covered by the earlier quantum order. Across these reported decisions his work moves between the summary disposal of legal issues under Order 14A, the appellate review of findings in a land-fraud case, and the construction of a management agreement governing maintenance fees, marking Saw Wei Siang as counsel across civil procedure, land and commercial-management litigation. Across these reported decisions his work moves between the summary determination of legal issues, the appellate testing of fraud findings and the technical construction of a management contract, marking a practice that ranges over civil procedure, land and commercial-management litigation rather than settling into a single field.