Josephine, L K Chow & Co

On the court record

Josephine, L K Chow & Co appears in the reported judgments as a civil, commercial and professional-litigation practice, working mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with matters in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan). A recurring strand of its corpus concerns the legal profession itself, including the dismissal by a High Court judge of an appeal against a decision of the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary machinery. The firm also appears in civil procedure and in a group of Sessions Court appeals arising from litigation involving a city-development group, where the issues include the grant of an injunction, the striking out and expungement of evidence, and questions of mediation and settlement privilege. Its family-law work includes an application under section 96 of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 to vary an existing order on the ground of a material change in circumstances and the non-performance of the order's terms. A further procedural strand concerns interpleader in execution proceedings under Order 17 of the Rules of Court 2012, where competing claims to seized property must be resolved, and contract disputes engaging an arbitration clause. The counterparties in the corpus include property and development companies such as the Bandar Utama City group and a trading company. Acting for defendants, appellants, plaintiffs and respondents across these matters, the firm presents as a general litigator whose corpus joins professional-discipline appeals to commercial and property disputes, family-law variation applications, and the interpleader, settlement-privilege and arbitration-clause questions that arise in the course of civil litigation. The legal-profession matters are a distinctive strand, engaging the firm with the disciplinary framework that governs advocates and solicitors and the route by which a decision of that machinery is challenged on appeal. The settlement-privilege points in the development-group litigation reflect a careful attention to what may and may not be placed before the court, particularly where the parties have previously attempted to compromise their dispute in mediation.