Ang Khoon Cheong

On the court record

A general civil-litigation practice weighted toward contract, tenancy, tort and agency disputes.

Ang Khoon Cheong practises in civil litigation, appearing across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), with the reported decisions recording appearances as defendant, plaintiff and appellant. The caseload is contract, tort and property. Tenancy disputes recur — including breach of a tenancy agreement — alongside general contract claims, tort actions, and questions of agency in which the existence of implied or ostensible authority determines whether a principal is bound by the acts of another.

A distinctive strand engages the interaction between substantive claims and public and evidential law. The reported matters include an application for an order of certiorari to quash a decision — a judicial-review remedy — and evidential questions such as the operation of "seksyen 92 Akta Keterangan 1950" (section 92 of the Evidence Act 1950), which restricts the use of extrinsic evidence to contradict the terms of a written document. There is also a civil appeal against a decision of a Magistrate, engaging the High Court's appellate role over the subordinate courts.

The work turns on the construction of agreements and on the principles of tort and agency. In the tenancy and contract matters the argument concerns the terms agreed and the consequences of breach; in the agency matters whether authority existed to bind the principal; in the certiorari matter whether the decision below is amenable to being quashed; and in the evidence matters whether extrinsic evidence may be admitted to vary a written instrument. Several matters reach the Court of Appeal on questions of law.

The overall profile is a general civil-litigation practice weighted toward contract, tenancy, tort and agency, conducted at first instance and on appeal. The matters turn on the construction of agreements, the Evidence Act, and the principles of agency and tort, together with the occasional public-law remedy, rather than on any criminal dimension, marking a broad private-law disputes practice.