Sidek Teoh Wong & Dennis

On the court record

Sidek Teoh Wong & Dennis appears in the reported judgments as a civil, land and banking litigation practice, working almost entirely in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and acting most often for plaintiffs. Land law is a defining strand: disputes arising from competing claims over charged property (a clash of claims over a piece of charged land), foreclosure and orders for sale under the National Land Code, including applications to fix a reserve price and appeals against such orders. Islamic banking features prominently — financing facilities structured as Tawarruq, the service of a notice of demand, and disputes over the grant of Ibra' (a rebate), for example in litigation involving Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad. The firm's company and corporate work covers debentures and the appointment of a receiver and manager under section 383 of the Companies Act 2016, schemes of arrangement, and winding-up petitions brought by a judgment creditor, including matters involving the Small Medium Enterprise Development Bank Malaysia Berhad. Civil procedure recurs through summary judgment under Order 14 of the Rules of Court 2012, where the question is whether a defendant has a bona fide triable issue, and through equity, trusts and remedies. Its counterparties in the corpus include financial institutions and corporate borrowers across the banking, development and trading sectors. Acting predominantly as plaintiff's counsel — for lenders, chargees and petitioners — the firm presents as a practice strong in the enforcement of security, Islamic financing disputes and the land and insolvency remedies that attend commercial lending. Its civil-procedure matters extend to summary judgment where the court asks whether the defendant has raised a bona fide triable issue that ought to go to trial, and to the equitable and trust principles engaged where competing interests are asserted over the same property. The corpus also records the firm acting in schemes of arrangement and debenture-holder remedies, so that its work spans the full sequence of secured lending — from the structuring of the facility and the service of demand through to foreclosure, receivership and, where the borrower is a company, winding up.