Court allows guarantor of tenancy agreement to defend HDB’s claim for double rent
SINGAPORE – A director of the now-closed Stansfield College will have her day in court to contest a claim by the Housing and Development Board for double rent of the private school’s tenanted premises totalling $84,000.
In September 2022, HDB applied for summary judgment against Ms Majella for a sum of $123,706.52, which included $27,000 in rental arrears from November 2018 to January 2019, and $84,000 in double rent from Feb 1, 2019, to June 20, 2019.On the claim for double rent, HDB’s case is that it has the contractual right to the amount because Ms Majella failed to hand over the property by Jan 31, 2019, after the tenancy was terminated.
He also granted Ms Majella unconditional permission to contest all other aspects of the claim, including that for double rent. The deputy registrar cited a precedent case where the court ruled a party cannot rely on contractually stipulated deadlines if it had caused the other party to miss the deadlines.
He added that other rules gave an appellate court a very broad latitude to consider relevant documents.
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