Amarjeet Singh a/l Serjit Singh

On the judicial record

A High Court judge whose corpus concentrates on administrative, revenue and legal-profession regulation, frequently turning on statutory jurisdiction and whether an alternative statutory remedy must be exhausted first.

Justice Amarjeet Singh a/l Serjit Singh sits mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), with some appeals in the Court of Appeal, and the reported work in this corpus leans heavily toward public and regulatory law. Judicial review is a dominant theme. Revenue matters recur — challenges by way of certiorari to anti-dumping duty orders under the customs regime, and applications for judicial review of tax assessments where a threshold question is whether the taxpayer must first pursue the alternative remedy of an appeal to the Special Commissioners of Income Tax rather than come directly to court.

The regulation of the legal profession forms a distinct strand: several decisions concern advocates and solicitors before the Disciplinary Board and a Disciplinary Committee under the Legal Profession Act, including the consequences where a complainant does not appear and the respective functions of the Committee and the Board. Industrial and labour disputes also feature, including a trade dispute over the terms of a collective agreement and the medical benefits it should provide, and judicial review of a securities-industry dispute-resolution award.

Contract and commercial appeals appear on the Court of Appeal side — for example whether a letter of offer containing the core commercial terms, with no 'subject to contract' qualification, constituted a binding contract, and the interpretation of a long-term collaboration agreement's duration and extension mechanism. Civil-procedure questions recur in the judicial-review context, such as the test for a stay of proceedings under Order 53 rule 3(5) of the Rules of Court, treated as analogous to the test for an interlocutory injunction. Land and property questions also appear, including a dispute over whether trespassed land belonged to private plaintiffs or was vested in the State Authority, and the effect of the absence of a memorial on the title. The corpus presents a judge whose centre of gravity is administrative, revenue and professional-regulation law, tried with close attention to statutory jurisdiction, the scope of judicial review, and the availability of an alternative remedy before the court's supervisory jurisdiction is engaged.