Lee Hsien Loong v Leong Sze Hian [2021] SGHC 66 Miscellaneous 128 At various points, the plaintiff referred to my earlier decision in these proceedings, in which I declined to strike out the Plaintiff’s claim in SUM 428. My findings in that decision were, of course, subject to the appropriate standard at that stage, namely, that there was a triable issue which warranted the matter proceeding to trial. Those findings did not control my determination at the close of proceedings, even with a submission of no case to answer being made. 129 The point of the determination in SUM 428 was to determine if there was enough before the court to warrant a trial; a finding that the prima facie standard was met on the material before the Court at the interlocutory stage did not necessarily indicate that a prima facie standard had been met at trial to warrant a finding for the plaintiff. One clear difference is that following the submission of there being no case to answer, the plaintiff’s evidence would have been tested in the cross-examination; it is entirely possible that sufficient doubt about the evidence may be raised through such questioning that a prima facie case is not made out. I would thus generally caution parties against seeking to blithely rely on determinations at an interlocutory stage as somehow wholly determinative of the outcome for the substantive proceeding. Conclusion 130 Given the entirety of the evidence placed before me, the defendant is to pay the plaintiff the sum of S$133,000. 131 I will deal with the matter of costs separately. Aedit Abdullah Judge of the High Court 68