Judge questions whether Thomson View’s S$810 million en bloc deal secured 80% mandate within time stipulated

[SINGAPORE] A High Court judge has questioned whether Thomson View Condominium received the 80 per cent mandate required for its collective sale to go through within the one-year period stipulated under the law. 

On Thursday (May 22), Justice Audrey Lim said that based on the evidence before the court, some of the 206 signatures appeared to have been obtained outside the 12-month period given for the collective sale committee to get 80 per cent of unitholders’ signatures. 

In response, Hui Choon Wai, a partner at law firm Wee Swee Teow, which is representing the collective sale committee, clarified that the 206 signatures were from owners who had signed both the collective sale agreement and a supplementary agreement.