Shearn Delamore & Co.

On the court record

Shearn Delamore & Co. appears across the reported judgments as a full-service civil and commercial litigation practice, acting interchangeably for plaintiffs, defendants, respondents and interveners rather than for any single side of the record. The largest recurring category is civil procedure and evidence — applications for extension of time to file and serve a notice of appeal, consolidation and severance of suits under the Rules of Court 2012, and the admissibility of without-prejudice communications under section 23 of the Evidence Act 1950. Its commercial docket is broad: revenue and stamp-duty disputes, including whether the sale of telecommunication towers is a "conveyance on sale" attracting ad valorem duty under section 21(1) and Item 32(a) of the First Schedule to the Stamp Act 1949; construction-payment adjudication under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA), including setting aside and enforcing an adjudication decision between an employer and a Siemens Mobility-led consortium; company and insolvency matters; intellectual-property claims; and the enforcement and registration of foreign judgments, including a Singapore judgment founded on a gambling debt. The firm has handled substantial trials on breach of fiduciary duty and misuse of confidential information — for example related appeals concerning a former employer's parking-solution technology — followed by contested assessments of compensatory, aggravated and exemplary damages, where the court moderated speculative valuation evidence set out in a Scott Schedule. It has also appeared in industrial-relations judicial review testing whether a minister acted contrary to section 26(3) of the Industrial Relations Act 1967. Its counterparties in the corpus are largely corporate and institutional — among them AmBank (M) Berhad, Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad, Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd, GTP Network Sdn Bhd and Sarawak Cable Berhad — consistent with a practice weighted toward banking, corporate and infrastructure clients. The work sits mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), with a steady stream in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and occasional matters in the Federal Court (Mahkamah Persekutuan).