Aida & G Ravi

On the court record

Aida & G Ravi is a Malaysian firm whose reported work bridges serious criminal defence and commercial civil litigation before the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan). At the most serious end, the firm has defended a murder charge under section 302 of the Penal Code as amended by the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023 (Act 846), where the court distinguished culpable homicide under section 299 from murder under section 300 and examined limb (c) of section 300 and whether the bodily injury intended was sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death. Its civil caseload turns heavily on the integrity of transactions and the conduct of proceedings. The firm has argued a claim founded on a total failure of consideration, where a plaintiff acting as a payment conduit had paid substantial sums to a defendant that gave nothing in return, and it has litigated an allegation that a sale and purchase agreement was a sham document masking an illegal moneylending scheme, testing whether the threshold for fraud, misrepresentation and conspiracy had been met.

The firm has also appeared in insolvency-adjacent litigation over the removal of a liquidator following a winding-up order, invoking the Companies Act 2016, the general duties owed by a liquidator, the role of the Director General of Insolvency and the liquidator's licence, and it has argued whether a company should be dissolved within a reasonable time. Its appellate work reviews Sessions Court decisions, including the operation of the slip rule under Order 20 Rule 11 of the Rules of Court 2012, under which a perfected order may not be amended save in exceptional circumstances where justice requires, and whether the dismissal of a counterclaim for the non-appearance of the appellant's solicitors, and the refusal of an adjournment, had caused injustice. The reported profile is that of a rounded litigation practice, comfortable both defending the gravest criminal charges and dissecting the commercial and procedural anatomy of civil disputes.