Preakas & Partners

On the court record

Preakas & Partners appears in the reported judgments as a civil, land and criminal-litigation practice, working entirely in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi). Land law is a recurring strand of its corpus, particularly the private caveat: a caveat lodged on account of allegedly unpaid management charges and whether it was supported by a caveatable interest or was a purely contractual claim, and an application by originating summons to remove a private caveat entered by another party. The firm also appears in arbitration-related civil procedure, including whether a stay of proceedings pending arbitration can be granted after the parties have taken certain steps in the litigation. Its criminal work is a distinct strand, and it appears as counsel for the accused in full trials (perbicaraan penuh) on charges under sections 39A(1) and 12(2) of the Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 (Dangerous Drugs Act 1952) and related provisions, and under section 39B, where the recurring question at the close of the prosecution case is whether the Pendakwa Raya (the Public Prosecutor) succeeded in proving the charge. It also appears in appeals from the Sessions Court and in discovery applications, including the discovery of bank-account statements and the relevancy of documents. The counterparties and parties in the corpus include management corporations, credit companies and individuals. Acting for plaintiffs, the accused, defendants, respondents and appellants across these matters, the firm presents as a general litigator whose corpus joins land and caveat disputes to arbitration-related procedure and the defence of serious drug charges, a breadth that reflects a practice moving between the property, commercial and criminal fields rather than concentrating on one. The caveat matters in particular recur, testing the boundary between a genuine proprietary interest and a merely contractual claim over land, a distinction that determines whether a caveat may stand to protect a claimed interest or must be removed as an improper encumbrance on the registered title.