Y.C. Wong

On the court record

Y.C. Wong appears in the reported judgments as a company, land and commercial-litigation practice, working across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan). A recurring cluster of its corpus arises from a group of oil-mill and plantation companies and turns on questions of corporate control, including the deemed retirement of directors and the consequences that follow, and on summary judgment under Order 14 of the Rules of Court 2012 to enforce a banking institution's facility. The firm also appears in compulsory land-acquisition matters, engaging sections 12, 36(2), 37(1) and 49(1) of the Land Acquisition Act 1960 in a dispute over the compensation payable to a management corporation for land taken. Company-law disputes feature prominently, including winding up on the just-and-equitable ground under section 465(1)(h) of the Companies Act 2016 founded on an alleged breakdown, and its contract and equity work extends to a claim for the specific performance of an agreement. Its civil-procedure and remedies matters include an interlocutory injunction, an anti-suit injunction and a matter engaging the Mental Health Act 2001, together with the assessment of damages on appeal from a Sessions Court decision, where the question was whether the judge below erred in law. The counterparties in the corpus include the oil-mill and plantation group — among them Raub Oil Mill Sdn Bhd and Raub Mining & Development Company Sdn Bhd — together with a State land authority. Acting for respondents and plaintiffs across these matters, the firm presents as a litigator whose corpus joins corporate-control and winding-up disputes to land compensation, specific performance and the injunction and assessment-of-damages questions that arise in complex commercial and company litigation. The concentration of matters arising from a single plantation and oil-mill group is a notable feature, showing how a protracted dispute over the control and financing of a family of related companies can generate a run of connected proceedings across different areas of law. The land-acquisition strand, engaging the detailed compensation provisions of the Land Acquisition Act 1960, marks the firm as one comfortable with the statutory valuation questions that arise when land is taken for public purposes.