Nekoo

On the court record

Nekoo appears in the reported judgments as an industrial-relations, family and civil-litigation practice, working across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan). A recurring strand of its corpus is industrial relations: a matter concerning whether a minister acted contrary to subsection 26(3) of the Industrial Relations Act 1967, in litigation involving the human-resources ministry and a bank-employees' union, and a dispute over the correct mode by which an Industrial Court award for wrongful dismissal may be challenged. The firm also appears in company and commercial matters raising multiple causes of action — fraud, conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent misrepresentation and constructive trust. Its family-law work is a distinct strand, including an application by a spouse seeking sole guardianship and reliefs on the custody, care and maintenance of a child, where the court set out arrangements for joint guardianship, primary care, access and maintenance. The firm's public-law work includes judicial review and a matter engaging section 16 of the Local Government Act 1967 concerning an appointment, and it appears in interlocutory applications, including an application to have a trial judge recuse himself. The counterparties in the corpus include a trade union, corporate parties and local authorities. Acting for appellants, applicants, defendants, plaintiffs and respondents across these matters, the firm presents as a broad litigator whose corpus joins industrial-relations disputes to family, company and public-law work, moving between the collective questions of labour law, the personal questions of guardianship and maintenance, and the commercial questions of fraud and corporate wrongdoing. The breadth of the docket, rather than a single specialism, is its defining feature, and its appearances range from the trial courts to the Court of Appeal. The guardianship and maintenance matters in particular show the court's protective jurisdiction over children, in which the welfare of the child governs the arrangements for care, access and support, while the industrial-relations work engages the very different collective machinery by which dismissals and union matters are resolved.