Lee Eng Beng

In SME Care Pte Ltd v Jannie Chan Siew Lee [2025] SGHC 27, the Singapore High Court ("Court") held a bankrupt ex-director of a company personally liable to the company for failing to take steps to recover sums owed by third parties to the company. Jannie Chan, the former director of a company known as Timor Global Pte Ltd ("TGPL"), was made a bankrupt. A private trustee in bankruptcy ("PTIB") was appointed to administer her bankruptcy estate.

Introduction In MoneySmart Singapore Pte Ltd v. Artem Musienko [2024] SGHC 94, the defendant, a former employee of the claimant, resigned and joined a subsidiary of a rival company. The claimant obtained two interim injunctions to prohibit the defendant from working for this subsidiary on the basis of two covenants in the employment agreement between the claimant and the defendant, a non-compete clause ("Non-Compete Clause") and a confidentiality clause ("Confidentiality Clause").