Kevin & Co.

On the court record

Kevin & Co. appears in the reported judgments as a broad civil and commercial-litigation practice with occasional criminal and public-law matters, working across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan). Contract is a central theme, argued in disputes over misrepresentation and the rescission of a sale and purchase agreement for commercial property, and over the rescission of a large-scale government project to construct and equip a facility, where the question is the parties' entitlement to unwind the bargain. The firm also appears in public-law judicial review under Order 53 of the Rules of Court 2012, including an application for leave brought by a religious body against a State authority, and in insurance disputes such as the construction of a fidelity-guarantee policy responding to the fraud or dishonesty of an employee. A society-law matter concerning the powers and office of the president of an association features in its Court of Appeal work, engaging section 40 of the applicable legislation. Its criminal matters, though fewer, include the defence of a murder charge under section 302 read with section 34 of the Penal Code and a drug-trafficking charge under section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, and it has appeared in a matrimonial application. The counterparties in the corpus include development and insurance companies such as Genting Development Sdn. Bhd. and MPI Generali Insurans Berhad. Acting for appellants, plaintiffs, defendants and applicants across these matters, the firm presents as a versatile general litigator whose corpus joins contract and commercial disputes to insurance, judicial-review, society-law and occasional criminal and family matters, rather than resting on a single specialism. The rescission cases are a recurring feature, requiring the court to decide whether a misrepresentation or other vitiating factor entitles a party to unwind an executed agreement and be restored to its former position, and the government-project matter shows the same principles applied to a substantial public contract. Taken with its judicial-review and society-law work, the corpus describes a firm equally willing to argue a private commercial dispute and a matter touching public bodies and associations.