Wong Kian Kheong

On the court record

Wong Kian Kheong appears in the reported judgments as a broad civil-litigation practice with a significant land and company element, working across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and the Federal Court (Mahkamah Persekutuan). A recurring and important strand of its corpus is compulsory land acquisition: land references in which the question is whether the compensation awarded for land taken under compulsory acquisition was adequate, in matters involving highway-concession and development companies. Its company-law work includes applications to strike out a cause of action for failing to meet the statutory requirements, applications to proceed with an oppression originating summons, and disputes over shares and securities. The firm also appears in a high-profile criminal appeal against conviction and sentence for criminal breach of trust and misappropriation under sections 405 and 403 of the Penal Code, a matter carried to the Court of Appeal. Its civil-procedure and remedies work includes the stay of proceedings pending the resolution of a related dispute, the setting aside of an injunction order followed by the assessment of damages where the loss must be proved on the balance of probabilities, applications under Order 33 rule 2 of the Rules of Court 2012, and leave to adduce further evidence at the Court of Appeal. Arbitration-clause questions — including conduct, express reservation and extension — also feature. The counterparties in the corpus include highway, development and trustee companies such as Sistem Lingkaran Lebuhraya Kajang Sdn Bhd and Rockwills Trustee Berhad. Acting on both sides of the record, the firm presents as a versatile litigator whose corpus spans land compensation, company disputes, a notable criminal appeal, and the injunction, stay and evidential questions that recur in complex civil litigation. The land-reference work is a particular strength, engaging the machinery by which a landowner dissatisfied with the compensation fixed for a compulsory acquisition asks the court to reassess the award, a field in which the adequacy of compensation and the correct valuation approach are frequently contested. The set-aside and assessment-of-damages matters, where a party who obtained an injunction must later prove the loss it claims flowed from it, show the firm engaging closely with the consequences of interlocutory relief as well as its grant.