Orme; Thomas Cowan & Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | Malaysia |
| Year | 1961 |
| Court | High Court (Malaysia) |
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3 cases
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Man Financial (S) Pte Ltd (formerly known as E D & F Man International (S) Pte Ltd) v Wong Bark Chuan David
...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......
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Man Financial (S) Pte Ltd (formerly known as E D & F Man International (S) Pte Ltd) v Wong Bark Chuan David
...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......
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Wang See Soi
...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
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VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — SOME KEY CONCEPTS AND DEVELOPMENTS
...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 ......
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OF GENERALITY AND SPECIFICITY — A SUGGESTED APPROACH TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOCHTHONOUS SINGAPORE LEGAL SYSTEM
...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......