Raja, Darryl & Loh

On the court record

Raja, Darryl & Loh appears in the reported judgments as a commercial and contract-litigation practice, working across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and acting most often for defendants. Contract law is a defining thread, argued at a fine grain: whether a Letter of Offer was intended to be binding, consensus ad idem tested objectively, the distinction between a counter-offer and a post-contractual proposal to vary, repudiation and anticipatory breach, and the measure of expectation losses and loss of future profit — as in a dispute between two commercial parties over the formation and breach of a supply arrangement. The firm also handles medical-negligence litigation focused on the interpretation and enforcement of a settlement agreement, and administrative-law judicial review, including a challenge by a refinery company to a Bill of Demand issued by the customs authority. Construction adjudication under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 features in its work, as do determinations of a question of law under Order 14A of the Rules of Court 2012 and interlocutory injunctions, for example to restrain the misuse of a power of attorney. The corpus even records the court's observations on the ethics of cross-examination. Its counterparties are substantial corporates, including Petron Malaysia Refining & Marketing Bhd, Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia Berhad, SD Guthrie International Pasir Gudang Refinery Sdn Bhd and specialist hospital operators. Taken together, the reported matters portray a firm whose strengths lie in contract, commercial and administrative-law disputes, supported by construction and medical-negligence work. Its civil-procedure record includes the determination of a discrete question of law under Order 14A of the Rules of Court 2012, a mechanism used to resolve a case, or a substantial part of it, without a full trial where the point turns on construction rather than disputed fact. The corpus also records the firm acting in disputes involving brewers, refiners and specialist hospitals, and appearing before both the High Court and the Court of Appeal, which together suggest a practice whose clients are established corporates and whose matters frequently raise points of contractual and administrative principle rather than routine recovery.