Lo Chambers

On the court record

Lo Chambers is a Malaysian firm whose reported matters before the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) are concentrated in company, arbitration, construction and civil-procedure litigation. In the corporate-rescue field it has appeared in a matter concerning judicial management and the statutory moratorium, seeking leave nunc pro tunc under section 410(c) of the Companies Act 2016 to commence or continue proceedings, and raising whether intervention in the judicial-management proceedings was a prerequisite to seeking leave and whether the court had jurisdiction to grant retrospective leave. Its arbitration and construction work is substantial: it has litigated the enforcement and setting aside of an arbitral award arising from a subcontract dispute over performance louvres for an industrial project, and a question of some importance whether an award obtained pursuant to a court-ordered reference to arbitration may be enforced under the Arbitration Act 2005 or should proceed under section 24A of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964.

The firm's civil-procedure practice includes an application to amend pleadings under Order 20 Rule 3 of the Rules of Court 2012, testing whether the amendments were filed before the close of pleadings, whether they amounted to the recantation of an admission of fact and whether they altered the nature and character of the case. It has also appeared in a winding-up petition under section 465(1)(e) read with section 466(1)(a) of the Companies Act 2016. In the subcontract matter the firm pursued the outstanding balance due for the supply, delivery and installation of performance louvres for an industrial project, tying the enforcement question to the underlying construction debt. The reported profile is that of a commercial-litigation practice with particular strength in corporate rescue and arbitration, engaged with the moratorium and leave questions that surround judicial management, the enforcement of arbitral awards and the distinction between court-ordered and consensual references, and the amendment and winding-up procedure that shapes commercial disputes.