Firoz Julian

On the court record

Firoz Julian appears in the reported judgments as a commercial and civil-litigation practice, working mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with matters reaching the Federal Court (Mahkamah Persekutuan). Injunction law is the most frequent theme in its corpus, spanning applications for and against interlocutory relief. The firm also has a distinct arbitration strand, appearing in applications to set aside an arbitral award. Its civil-procedure work includes striking out under Order 18 rule 19 of the Rules of Court 2012 and discovery applications — for example seeking documents relating to a fire — and its company-law matters cover debentures and post-winding-up leave applications to commence or continue proceedings against a company in liquidation. A further recognisable area is defamation, including the transfer of a defamation action from the High Court to the Sessions Court in line with the current trend for such claims. The firm has also appeared in vexatious-litigant proceedings under paragraph 17 of the Schedule to the Courts of Judicature Act 1964, where the court is asked to restrain an abuse of process, in a matter involving CIMB Bank Berhad. Its counterparties in the corpus are largely corporate and institutional, including Allianz General Insurance Company (Malaysia) Berhad, My Premier Trustee (Malaysia) Berhad, Affin Bank Berhad and food and manufacturing companies. Acting for plaintiffs, respondents, defendants and interveners across these matters, the firm presents as a general commercial litigator whose corpus is marked by injunction and arbitration work, company and insolvency disputes, and the occasional defamation and abuse-of-process matter, rather than by a single specialism. Its injunction practice is the thread that runs most consistently through the corpus, whether the firm is seeking to restrain conduct pending trial or resisting an order said to have been wrongly granted, and its arbitration and set-aside work shows a readiness to test an award on the limited grounds the Arbitration Act 2005 allows. The company and insolvency matters, including leave to proceed against a company in liquidation, add a recovery and restructuring dimension to a docket that is otherwise defined by contested interlocutory relief.