Oakwell Engineering Ltd v Enernorth Industries Inc
Oakwell Engineering Ltd v Enernorth Industries Inc was an appeal to the Court of Appeal for Ontario by Enernorth Industries Inc. (Enernorth), a Canadian company, from a judgment of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granting an application brought by Oakwell Engineering Limited (Oakwell), a Singaporean company, for an order recognizing and enforcing in Ontario a judgment granted against Enernorth by the High Court of Singapore on October 16, 2003 and affirmed by the Court of Appeal of Singapore on April 27, 2004.

The case is notable because Enernorth claimed that the Singapore judgment should not be recognized in Canada because judicial standards in Singapore were not the same as those in Canada. Among other things, Enernorth alleged that links between the judiciary, business and the executive arm in Singapore suggested a real risk of bias.

According to analyst Michael Backman, if Enernorth's appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal had succeeded, this might have had the effect of dissuading companies from using Singaporean law for arbitration and trial, and calling into question the fairness of the Singaporean legal system. However, Enernorth lost its appeal before the Court of Appeal, and was refused leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Q3000987
Court of Appeal for Ontario
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Q7094918
Ontario Superior Court of Justice
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Q3135363
High Court of Singapore
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Q14874268
Court of Appeal of Singapore
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Q6302976
judicial standards in Singapore
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Q6828343
Michael Backman
PER
Q196615
Supreme Court of Canada
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Q7074268
Oakwell Engineering Ltd v Enernorth Industries Inc
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October 16, 2003
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2004-04-27T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
April 27, 2004
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