Dato' Bastian Vendargon

On the court record

Dato' Bastian Vendargon appears in the reported corpus as counsel in public-law and commercial litigation at the High Court, Court of Appeal and Federal Court. His administrative-law work is visible in a judicial review concerning approvals given by Kuala Lumpur City Hall for a gated-and-guarded scheme, which had lapsed, where applicants challenged the authority's inaction in permitting the continuation of the scheme; after the review was filed the authority granted the approval, raising whether the judicial review had become academic or was premature. At the Federal Court he was engaged as respondent's counsel in a matter concerning the failure to obtain the consent of the Minister of Finance under section 67 of the Insurance Act 1996, and the effect of the repeal of that Act by the Financial Services Act 2013 — in particular whether the relevant statute is the one in force at the time of entry into the agreement or at the time of performance.

His commercial work appears in a set of Court of Appeal appeals concerning a management agreement, where the court addressed the liability period covered by an ordered "Account and Inquiry", holding that the High Court had erred in amending the liability period and that, under clause 8.1.1 of the agreement, the agreement continued until the expiry of the licence period specified in the last work order, with the matter remitted for further account and inquiry into the period not covered by the earlier quantum order. Across these reported decisions his work moves between the judicial review of a local authority's decisions, the temporal application of financial-services legislation and the construction of a management agreement, marking Dato' Bastian Vendargon as counsel across public-law and commercial litigation at the appellate level. Across these reported decisions his work reaches from the review of a local authority's decisions, through the temporal application of financial-services legislation, to the technical construction of a management agreement, marking an appellate practice that ranges across public law and high-value commercial disputes.