Azim, Tunku Farik & Wong

On the court record

Azim, Tunku Farik & Wong appears in the reported judgments as a medical-negligence, personal-injury and insurance-defence practice, working mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with some matters in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and appearing overwhelmingly for defendants. Medical negligence is the defining strand of its corpus: claims over the standard of care in surgery and treatment, the assessment of damages for pain and suffering — including for a patient who endured prolonged pain — and the interpretation and enforcement of a settlement agreement compromising such a claim, in matters involving private hospitals. Fatal-accident litigation features as well, including claims for loss of dependency under section 7 of the Civil Law Act 1956 brought by the administrator of a deceased's estate. A recurring and important defence is limitation: whether a claim in tort was filed within the period fixed by section 6(1)(a) of the Limitation Act — including a claim filed a single day late — and whether the postponement provision for concealment in section 29 applies. The firm also appears in insurance and takaful disputes, including the construction of a fidelity-guarantee policy responding to employee dishonesty. The counterparties in the corpus are predominantly hospital operators and their insurers, among them Bukit Tinggi Hospital Sdn Bhd, Sentosa Medical Centre Sdn Bhd, Pantai Medical Centre Sdn Bhd and Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital Sdn Bhd. Acting almost entirely on the defence side, the firm presents as a specialist in the defence of medical-negligence and personal-injury claims and the insurance and limitation questions that surround them, rather than as a general commercial practice. The limitation defences are a recurring and decisive feature, since a claim brought even a day outside the statutory period may be defeated at the threshold unless the claimant can invoke the concealment provision, and the firm's corpus shows these arguments being fought before the merits are ever reached. Its appearances for hospitals and their insurers across a run of negligence and fatal-accident matters mark it as a defence practice embedded in the medical and insurance sectors.