Justin Voon Chooi & Wing

On the court record

Justin Voon Chooi & Wing appears in the reported judgments as a civil and commercial litigation practice, acting for plaintiffs and defendants in roughly equal measure and working almost entirely in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi). Civil procedure is the most frequent theme in its corpus, spanning interlocutory applications, alleged defects in the jurat and affidavit evidence, and the amendment of pleadings to add a defence and counterclaim. The firm has a distinct construction and property-development strand: adjudication proceedings under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA), and housing-development disputes over liquidated ascertained damages (LAD), where the computation of LAD is governed by the statutory formula under the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 and its regulations rather than by the parties' own agreement. Company and commercial matters recur as well — a members' right to requisition an extraordinary general meeting under the Companies Act 2016, and a contract dispute over the exercise of a put option under put-and-call option agreements involving Kenanga Investors Berhad, including the requirements of a valid notice to exercise. It also appears in injunction practice and in cross-border commercial disputes with foreign-incorporated counterparties, including a technology company's affiliate. Its themes include housing development, contract, illegality, limitation and estoppel. The counterparties in the corpus are largely corporate, including property developers and investment companies. Occasional matters reach the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and the Federal Court (Mahkamah Persekutuan). In its adjudication work the recurring questions are whether the adjudicator acted within jurisdiction and whether the resulting decision should be enforced or set aside, while its housing-development claims focus on the developer's liability for late delivery of vacant possession and the correct measure of statutory damages. The firm also handles interlocutory injunctions to preserve the position between the parties pending trial and defends claims raising limitation and estoppel. Taken together, the reported matters portray a general commercial litigator with recognisable depth in construction, housing-development and company disputes.