See Mee Chun

On the judicial record

Shows a Court of Appeal judge engaging across contract, schemes of arrangement under the Companies Act 2016, admiralty jurisdiction, detention under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012, and insurance, testing whether the court below applied the correct standard.

See Mee Chun sits in the Court of Appeal, and this collection captures the wide commercial, civil and criminal range of intermediate appellate review. Contract and commercial appeals are prominent, including monetary claims arising from a joint-venture agreement and a sale-and-purchase agreement turning on a condition precedent requiring Estate Land Board approval within a fixed period. Company and insolvency law features through the principles and legislative purpose of a scheme of arrangement and a restraining order under section 366 of the Companies Act 2016, and the lifting of the corporate veil to impose liability on individuals. Admiralty jurisdiction is addressed through the reach of the Admiralty High Court under section 24(b) of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964. Criminal and public-law appeals engage arrest and detention under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 and sections 124K and 124L of the Penal Code, with claims of unlawful detention and malicious prosecution, and an appeal on the public-interest and seriousness factors relevant to sentencing under the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007. Drug-trafficking appeals recur. Strata law arises through the position of a management corporation under the Strata Management Act 2013, and insurance through the notice requirement in the proviso to section 96(3) of the Road Transport Act 1987. A defamation appeal concerns allegedly defamatory statements published by a media group. Because the Court of Appeal sits in panels and its rulings bind or guide the courts below, these decisions reflect collective reasoning to which this judge contributed. Private individuals are referred to by role; corporate, governmental and media parties are named. A recurring theme is the appellate court's testing of whether the court below applied the correct legal standard before it will intervene. The collection shows how a single appellate judge engages across contract, company law, admiralty, crime and insurance.