Celinne Teh

On the court record

The reported matters span company-law, strata-management and banking work, grounded in High Court and Court of Appeal judgments.

Celinne Teh's reported matters cover company law, strata management and banking, argued in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. A company-law decision concerned section 351 of the Companies Act 2016, the provision that replaced section 368A of the Companies Act 1965 and allows a member or debenture holder to seek relief, where the question was whether the plaintiffs had locus standi to seek the remedies claimed under that section; appearing for the defendant, the matter engaged the origins and scope of the statutory remedy and who is entitled to invoke it.

Strata management features in a Court of Appeal appeal concerning a dispute over the rates of maintenance charges imposed on car parks in a mixed commercial development; appearing for a respondent, the matter engaged the recurring question of how a management body may fairly levy differential charges within a mixed development.

Banking completes the profile. In a High Court matter concerning facilities agreements, the question was the cancellation of banking facilities and its legal effect on the facilities agreement, and whether the cancellation effectively terminated the facilities; appearing for the plaintiff, the Court ordered that the defendant account, within fourteen days, for all monies, including accrued interest, from the fixed-deposit accounts and an escrow account. A thread across these decisions is the enforcement of statutory and contractual rights within corporate, communal and banking structures, from the standing to seek a company-law remedy under section 351 of the Companies Act 2016, to the fairness of strata maintenance charges, to the consequences of cancelling banking facilities, argued in the High Court and before the Court of Appeal of Malaysia. The reported work thus spans company, strata and banking fields, grounded in the judgments rather than any ranking, with a recurring focus on who is entitled to a remedy and on the precise legal effect of a corporate or contractual step once it is taken.