She moonlit for a rival and still walked away owing next to nothing
District Judge Teo Guan Kee ruled on 17 August 2026 that a moonlighting employee owed her employer just $14,700 of the $208,000 claimed.
The case, decided in Singapore's State Courts centred on a Singapore corporate secretarial services provider (the Claimant) and a former employee (the Defendant) engaged from December 2021 to act as a local director or company secretary for the firm's clients. The Claimant dismissed the Defendant without notice on 16 October 2023 and sued two weeks later, alleging she had spent much of her tenure serving a rival corporate secretarial firm.
The Defendant admitted a striking set of facts. Her Singpass credentials, Singapore's national digital identity system, had been used for more than 800 transactions with the corporate registry, and records showed she had been named local director for 86 companies that were not the Claimant's clients. She had also been appointed a Qualified Individual for the rival firm, a role needed to provide corporate secretarial services, and had issued the rival at least 18 invoices for nominee directorships and related work.
The Defendant maintained this was informal assistance rather than competing business. In her evidence, she described the arrangement as "purely functional, temporary and did not amount to competing business." District Judge Teo Guan Kee rejected this characterisation, finding her own admissions sufficient to establish breaches...
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