Seow Hock Peng

On the judicial record

A clear window on the commercial and civil workload of a busy High Court, spanning contract, section 346 oppression buy-outs, Fortuna injunctions, interpleader intervention and defamation appeals.

Seow Hock Peng sits in the High Court, and this collection is a densely commercial and civil list authored in English. Contract is the largest strand, running through supply, tenancy and sale disputes, including an interim injunction to restrain the disposal of land where a tenancy agreement contained a right of first refusal. Company and insolvency work recurs: minority-oppression proceedings under seksyen 346 Akta Syarikat 2016 (section 346 of the Companies Act 2016) resolved by a buy-out order, and winding-up questions including a Fortuna injunction and the treatment of a company struck off the register. Enforcement features through garnishee proceedings, where the court examined an order that had already attached a substantial sum. A cluster of interpleader matters raises a recurring procedural question — applications for leave to intervene and be added as a respondent by a party that is not itself a party to the underlying sale-and-purchase agreement. Defamation appears on appeal from the Sessions Court, where that court had found a defendant liable and the High Court reviewed the finding. Strata and property management arise where a management corporation established under the Strata Titles Act 1985 is said to have failed in its statutory duties, and tax through an appeal against a decision on unpaid income tax. The judgments identify the governing rule or statutory provision — the oppression remedy, the Fortuna threshold, the interpleader and intervention rules — and apply it to the facts, resolving each matter on that footing rather than on broad impression. Private individuals are referred to by role; corporate and institutional parties are named. A consistent feature is the court's attention to the precise procedural gateway a party must pass through before relief follows. The collection is a clear window on the commercial and civil workload of a busy High Court that hears both first-instance disputes and appeals from the subordinate courts.