Chong Jen Hui

On the court record

Chong Jen Hui appears in the reported corpus as a commercial and civil litigator, with insolvency, tenancy, fraud and utilities-compensation matters among the reported appearances at the High Court and Court of Appeal. His insolvency work is visible in a matter, in which he acted as third party, on judicial management and the moratorium that attends it — an application for leave nunc pro tunc under section 410(c) of the Companies Act 2016 to commence or continue proceedings, raising whether intervention in the judicial-management proceedings was a prerequisite to seeking leave and whether the court could grant retrospective leave. His contract work appears in a tenancy dispute on whether a tenancy had been renewed on expiry — inferred from the conduct of the parties — whether it was subsequently terminated, whether vacant possession had been delivered in accordance with the contract, and whether a claim for double rental was justified.

His reported work also reaches fraud and the compensation payable for the use of land. He was engaged in a trial founded on fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, where a managing director had been in control of a company's overall management and decision-making, and in a matter on the burden of proof borne by a plaintiff under section 101 of the Evidence Act 1950. He also appeared as respondent's counsel in a Court of Appeal matter on late-payment interest under the Electricity Supply Act 1990 for delayed wayleave compensation and the landowner's right to adequate compensation under Article 13(2) of the Federal Constitution. Across these reported decisions his work moves between corporate insolvency, tenancy and contract, fraud and fiduciary duty, and utilities compensation, marking Chong Jen Hui as a commercial and civil litigator of broad range. Across these reported decisions the recurring thread is the enforcement and resistance of commercial obligations — a moratorium restraining a creditor, a tenancy pressed for double rental, a fiduciary alleged to have abused control, a utility's liability for delayed compensation — marking a practice rooted in commercial and civil litigation.