CIVIL PROCEDURE: Appeal - Finding of facts - Whether Court of Appeal may reverse finding of facts where defendant had not called any evidence at trial

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Judgment - Res judicata - Senior Assistant Registrar’s order - Whether order was final judgment on merits - Whether order made in striking out proceeding was exhaustive determination of limitation issue

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Limitation - Contract - Waiver - Whether claim timebarred - Whether correspondence exchanged amounted to admission - Whether defendant’s representation or conduct during settlement negotiations amounted to waiver to defence of limitation

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Pleadings - Limitation - Whether failure to mention Limitation Act 1953 meant defence of limitation not properly pleaded - Whether sufficient to merely aver that claim time-barred - Limitation Act, 1953 s. 29

CONTRACT: Formation - Agreement - Without prejudice discussions - Whether could amount to settlement agreement - Burden on plaintiff to establish agreement - Plaintiff’s burden not absolved despite defendant not leading any evidence

EVIDENCE: Burden of proof - Whether plaintiff had proven its claims - Contract claim - Without prejudice discussions - Whether could amount to settlement agreement - Burden on plaintiff to establish agreement - Plaintiff’s burden not absolved despite defendant not leading any evidence

EVIDENCE: Presumptions - Adverse inference - Whether adverse inference may be invoked merely on account of failure to obtain evidence - Whether there was withholding or suppression of evidence - Whether oblique motive shown

MENTAL DISORDERS AND TREATMENT: Inquiry - Medical reports - Whether showed that subject mentally disordered and incapable of managing himself and his affairs - Whether applicant made application for inquiry by court under s. 52(1) of Mental Health Act 2001 - Whether court could appoint committee in absence of finding that subject was mentally disordered person - Mental Health Act 2001, ss. 52(3), 56 & 58

WORDS & PHRASES: 'Mentally disordered person' - Meaning of - Mental Health Act 2001, s. 51 - Any person found by due course of law to be mentally disordered and incapable of managing himself and his affairs