Pang Kiat, Yu Qi Law Chambers

On the court record

Pang Kiat, Yu Qi Law Chambers is a Malaysian firm whose reported matters before the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) span land, insurance-related civil procedure and commercial injunctions. A substantial matter concerns land and joint venture: the firm has appeared in litigation over the alleged trespass to land (pencerobohan tanah) arising from a joint-venture arrangement documented by a business exit agreement and a consultancy agreement, engaging the rights of management, operation and development, allegations of misrepresentation and fraud, a conflict of interest, an application to disqualify the opposing solicitor, and questions of the court's inherent jurisdiction, extension of time to file a defence, default judgment and the amendment of pleadings and counterclaim.

The firm's civil-procedure work includes matters against an insurer where the defendant sought to withdraw an amended defence and counterclaim, and the plaintiff, objecting, applied instead to strike it out, raising whether withdrawal should be allowed and on what terms as to costs. It has also argued commercial injunctions, appearing in an application for mandatory and prohibitory injunctions to compel a defendant to return sheet piles, to restrain their disposal and to require disclosure of their whereabouts, testing whether the plaintiff had satisfied all the conditions for the grant of interim injunctive relief.

In the joint-venture litigation the firm also engaged the court's inherent jurisdiction, applications for an extension of time to file a defence, the setting aside of a default judgment and the amendment of the defence and counterclaim, the full interlocutory apparatus of a hard-fought land dispute. The reported profile is that of a commercial-litigation practice engaged with land and joint-venture disputes and the fraud, conflict-of-interest and disqualification questions they generate, with the procedural handling of withdrawn and struck-out pleadings in insurance litigation, and with the interim injunctions, mandatory, prohibitory and disclosure-based, that secure property and preserve the subject matter of a dispute pending trial. The firm's caseload reflects work for commercial parties seeking to protect their contractual and proprietary interests through the courts.