Orme; Thomas Cowan & Company Ltd

JurisdictionMalaysia
Year1961
CourtHigh Court (Malaysia)

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3 cases
  • Wang See Sooi and Another v Tan Yon Chia
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 2023
  • Wong Bark Chuan David v Man Financial (S) Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 29 November 2007
    ...this is not the case in the Singapore context. In particular, the seminal Singapore High Court decision of Thomas Cowan & Co Ltd v Orme [1961] MLJ 41 (“Thomas Cowan”) must be 75 In Thomas Cowan, the plaintiff employer brought an action against its former employee to restrain him from contin......
  • Wang See Soi
    • Malaysia
    • Invalid date
    ...manufacturers, like Maxcos dealing with the same products. A decision by the Singapore High Court in the case of Thomas Cowan v Orme [1961] MLJ 41, supports such a contention, where 'monopoly' was stated as offending against public policy. In that case, FA Chua J held at page … if the [ex-e......
2 books & journal articles
  • VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — SOME KEY CONCEPTS AND DEVELOPMENTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2005, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...565. 379 And see generally Phang, supra n 12, at 701 ff. In this regard, the Singapore High Court decision of Thomas Cowan & Co Ltd v Orme[1961] MLJ 41 was an extremely early example of non-English cases being — in many ways — ahead of their time. Cf also, now, the decision being presently ......
  • OF GENERALITY AND SPECIFICITY — A SUGGESTED APPROACH TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOCHTHONOUS SINGAPORE LEGAL SYSTEM
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1989, December - January 1989
    • 1 December 1989
    ...the level of autochthonous development in other jurisdictions. 17. See, generally, supra, note 4. 18. See, generally, supra, note 2. 19. [1961] M.L.J. 41. 20. The covenant reads as follows: that the employee “[o]n leaving the services of the employer for any reason whatsoever either pursuan......