• ICC Arbitration – Contractual & Shareholders dispute. Client was sued for breach of a shareholders agreement. Client denied and disputed the claim. Client also raised issue of limitation.
• Commercial dispute – Client was sued for wrongful termination of two sale and purchase (cum development) agreements and wrongful forfeiture of all sums received totalling to approximately RM9 million. The suit went up to the Federal Court.
• Corporate Dispute – Client sued for breach of Share Sale Agreement and Shareholders’ Agreement. Client also applied for an interim injunction restraining payment of RM8 Million under a bank guarantee.
• Commercial Dispute – Client who is a listed stock broking firm sued for about RM4.2 million outstanding contra losses in share trading and share margin accounts together with interests.
• Medical Negligence –Client sued for medical negligence against two (2) doctors and also the Tun Hussein Onn National Eye Hospital.
• Corporate Dispute – Plaintiff claimed for 14 cranes alleged to have been sold to the defendant for the sum of RM14million.
• Banking Litigation – Client sued for monies paid under mistake of fact.
• Banking Litigation – Client which is a bank was sued by a customer for wrongful suspension of bridging loan facilities granted for a housing project. The bank counter claimed. The trial took 24 days over 4 years. The issues involved the entire duration of a construction project from releasing bridging loan to end-financing.
• Construction Litigation – Client was sued pursuant to a settlement agreement to settle balance retention sum and payment certificate.
• Trespass – Sale and purchase agreement included a side letter which provides that the land must be cleared of all private and government encroachment failing which a penalty of RM1 million each is payable to the new purchaser.
• Building Construction Dispute – Reviewing the correctness of part of the Federal Court’s ruling in the earlier case of Selvakumar on the meaning of certain words in section 75 of the Contracts Act.
• Land Dispute – Eviction of ex-workers of the biggest plantation estates in Malaysia.
• Probate Dispute - Large estate dispute. Suit against the trustee for breach of duties by beneficiaries of the Estate.
• Testified as an expert witness on Malaysian law in the Singapore High Court.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
English, Malay and Cantonese

PUBLICATIONS / PRESENTATIONS

• Authored “Are Former Estate Workers Squatters?” - IPBA Journal, No. 28, December 2002
• Presented “A Brief Outline On Malaysian Bankruptcy Law And Corporate Insolvency And Restructuring Procedures In Malaysia” at the Lex Mundi Conference, San Francisco, September 2003
• Contributed the Malaysian Chapter for a textbook on the different legal systems in the world titled ‘International Commercial Debt Recovery’ published by Carswell in 2006, a division of Thomson Canada Limited
• Presented a paper titled ‘Recent Issues and Trends in the National Land Code 1965’ at the Malaysian Land Law Conference 2006
• Contributed the Malaysian Chapter for a book on the different legal systems in the world titled ‘International Commercial Secured Transactions’ published by Carswell in 2010, a division of Thomson Canada Limited.

POSTS / PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

• Asia / Pacific Regional Vice Chair of the Lex Mundi Bankruptcy an International Insolvency Practice Group, Lex Mundi.
• Member of the Investigating Tribunal panel of the Advocates & Solicitors Disciplinary Board.
• Trustee of the Perak Chess Society.
• Assistant Secretary of the Methodist Boys’ School Old boys Association.
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK)
• Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Arbitrators
• Member of the Malaysian delegation to the 5th World Chambers Congress in Istanbul, July 4-6, 2007
• Member of the “Focus Group on Closing Down a Business” committee of PEMUDAH which is a Public and Private Sector Committee set up by the Malaysian Government to address public service delivery issues.
• Executive Committee of Skrine for 2002 – 2004 and 2007 – 2010
• Member of the Bar Council Working Group for Proposed Combined Rules of Court (2008 - 2010 )
• Member of ICC Malaysia Panel of Arbitrators (1 March 2009 – 28 Feb 2011)
• Notary Public (2010 - 2012)

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