S. K. Song

On the court record

S. K. Song appears in the reported judgments as a civil, insolvency and family-litigation practice, working entirely in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi). A recurring strand of its corpus is insolvency, including an application to set aside an ex parte order for the public examination of a person, obtained by a liquidator, and an application to reverse a decision of a liquidator. Civil procedure features prominently, including an interlocutory application for summary judgment under Order 14 of the Rules of Court 2012 in a matter involving a securities company, and case-management questions such as whether the court may allow a party's claim notwithstanding a failure to comply with directions. The firm also appears in contract and fraud matters, including an alleged fraud in a sale and purchase agreement, and in an appeal against a decision on the reinstatement cost of works where the issue was whether any actual work had been carried out. Its family-law work includes a full-trial dispute between former spouses arising from a business carried on between them, and an application for an exemption from referral to a conciliatory body under section 106 of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976. The counterparties in the corpus include securities, development and corporate parties. Acting for plaintiffs, respondents, petitioners and defendants across these matters, the firm presents as a general litigator whose corpus joins insolvency and liquidator-related applications to civil-procedure, contract-fraud and family-law disputes, a breadth that reflects a practice moving between the commercial and personal ends of civil litigation rather than specialising in one field. The public-examination matters are a distinctive feature, since the examination of a person about the affairs of an insolvent estate is a powerful investigative tool in the hands of a liquidator, and the firm's corpus shows it both invoking and resisting that process. Its family-law work, engaging the statutory requirement to attempt reconciliation before a divorce may proceed, shows the same practice attentive to the procedural conditions that govern the dissolution of a marriage.