Wilson Lim

On the court record

Wilson Lim is a Malaysian firm whose reported matters before the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) span contract, company, tort, property and civil procedure. In the contract field it has appeared in a full-trial sales-contract dispute engaging fundamental breach, repudiation and the discharge of contract under sections 40 and 76 of the Contracts Act 1950, the distinction between a condition and a warranty, a defective system and the contra proferentem rule, and in a dispute over the formation of a loan contract and whether the agreement was between corporate entities or individuals and enforceable without written documentation. Its property work includes an appeal over a sale and purchase agreement where the car park was located otherwise than as agreed, and the developer's contractual obligation and specific performance to reallocate it to its intended location.

The firm's company and civil-procedure practice is substantial. It has appeared in a striking-out application under Order 18 Rule 19 of the Rules of Court 2012 directed at a claim founded on the alleged abuse of court process, the malicious institution of civil proceedings and conspiracy to injure, and in a winding-up matter on whether leave should be granted to a contributory to continue arbitration proceedings on behalf of a wound-up company where the liquidator had refused to bring or defend them. It has also litigated a summary-judgment appeal over an unpaid debt for the supply of diesel to ferries, testing whether triable issues arose, and consolidated appeals against a finding of defamation after full trial.

The reported profile is that of a general commercial-litigation practice engaged with contract formation and breach, developer obligations and specific performance, the striking out of abuse-of-process and conspiracy claims, and the winding-up and defamation questions that arise in commercial disputes, with a consistent focus on the documentary and evidential foundation of each claim.