Hong v Choong Fah Rubber Manufactory

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1961
Year1961
CourtPrivy Council
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46 cases
  • Ngui Mui Khin v Gillespie Bros & Company Ltd
    • Malaysia
    • Federal Court (Malaysia)
    • Invalid date
  • Lek Peng Lung v Lee Investments (Pte) Ltd and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 7 Octubre 1991
    ...The effect of an equivalent Malayan provision was considered by the Privy Council in Chow Yoong Hong v Choong Fah Rubber Manufactory. [1961] 3 All ER 1163 The Privy Council approved the judgment of Thomson J in Sadhu Singh v Sellathurai. [1955] MLJ 117 In that case, Thomson J had held that ......
  • City Hardware Pte Ltd v Kenrich Electronics Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 31 Enero 2005
    ...such an investigative factual witch-hunt is to be found in the seminal decision of Chow Yoong Hong v Choong Fah Rubber Manufactory [1962] AC 209 (“Chow Yoong Hong”) at 216 where Lord Devlin stated with his customary clarity and The fundamental error that underlies the defendants’ case on bo......
  • Tan Tock Lay v Chan Tin Soon
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 23 Mayo 1991
    ...which is in pari materia with s 3 of our Act was construed by the Privy Council in Chow Yoong Hong v Choong Fah Rubber Manufactory [1961] 3 All ER 1163, per Lord Devlin at p 1168: Section 3 provides that `any person who lends a sum of money in consideration of a larger sum being repaid shal......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • IFI Update London, August/October 2008 - Part 2
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 9 Octubre 2008
    ...AC 471 and Re George Inglefield Ltd [1933] 1 Ch 1, and the Privy Council decision in Chow Yoong Hong v. Choong Fah Rubber Manufactory [1962] AC 209. The character the transaction must be gleaned from the language used in the documentation, rather than from its economic substance (which migh......
2 books & journal articles
  • Note:WHEN IS AN ELEPHANT A BIRD?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 Diciembre 2006
    ...See further supra at n 33. 62 Supra n 12. 63 Id, at [13]. See also Lord Devlin in Chou Yoong Hong v Choong Fah Rubber Manufactory Ltd[1962] AC 209 at 216—217: “If in form it is not a loan, it is not to the point to say that its object was to raise money for one of them or that the parties c......
  • Reforming Non‐Possessory Secured Transactions Laws: A New Strategy?
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 78-4, July 2015
    • 1 Julio 2015
    ...Company Charges: Spectrum and Beyond (Oxford: OUP, 2006).89 Mokal, n 38 above, 401.90 See Chow Yoong Hong vChoong Fah Rubber Manufactory [1962] AC 209, 216.91 See Board of Trade, Report of the Company Law Committee Cmnd 1749 (1962). See the Committeeon Consumer Credit, chaired by Lord Geoff......

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