Wong Hok Mun Partnership

On the court record

Wong Hok Mun Partnership appears in the reported judgments as a civil, insurance and commercial-litigation practice, working entirely in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and appearing most often for defendants. Civil procedure is the most frequent theme in its corpus, including summary disposal under Order 14A of the Rules of Court 2012, an interlocutory application to transfer a suit to be heard with another, and the amendment of a writ and statement of claim to add foreign plaintiffs. A distinct strand of the firm's corpus is insurance, including an insurance-contract dispute engaging the pre-contractual duty of disclosure under Schedule 9 of the Financial Services Act 2013, in a matter involving a life insurer, and a dispute over two separate health questions in an insurance proposal and whether they were independent of each other, in a matter involving a bank and an insurer. The firm also appears in a matter on remote testimony, engaging the public interest, the interests of justice and the court's inherent powers and judicial discretion, in litigation involving a federal land-development authority, and in a sale and purchase agreement for palm-oil land concerning the delivery of vacant possession and an encroachment by a neighbour. The counterparties in the corpus include banks, insurers, a statutory land authority and development companies. Acting predominantly for defendants, the firm presents as a litigator whose corpus joins civil-procedure and summary-disposal work to insurance-contract disputes and property matters, with the pre-contractual duty of disclosure under the Financial Services Act 2013 a recurring and significant theme in its insurance practice. The disclosure matters are particularly consequential, since the Act's Schedule 9 reshaped the duty a proposer owes an insurer and the circumstances in which an insurer may decline a claim for non-disclosure, and the firm's corpus shows those questions being worked out on the wording of the specific health questions put to the proposer. Its civil-procedure and property work rounds out a practice that pairs insurance disputes with mainstream commercial litigation.