SINGAPORE – After clashing with his court-appointed private trustee, a bankrupt man asked the High Court to have the trustee removed, citing what he described as an “irreparable breakdown” in their working relationship.
But the court dismissed Alvin See Chuen Lim’s application, ruling that he has no legal standing to seek the trustee’s removal.
It added that, even if he did, none of the complaints he raised came close to meeting the high legal threshold for the court to interfere with a trustee’s decisions.
In a judgment released on July 1, Assistant Registrar Samuel Chan also explained the role of private trustees in Singapore’s bankruptcy system and set out when bankrupts can ask the court to review the trustees’ actions.