Emily Chong Pei Yen

On the court record

A general civil-litigation practice spanning commercial, insurance and family disputes in the High Court.

Emily Chong Pei Yen practises in civil litigation, appearing in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), with the reported decisions recording appearances as respondent, defendant, appellant, petitioner and plaintiff. The caseload is commercial and personal. Commercial disputes recur, including a matter in which a company appealed a decision turning on the delivery and receipt of goods, and insurance-law claims over the scope of cover and the insurer's liability.

The practice also reaches family and criminal-adjacent work. The reported catchwords engage divorce and custody questions, and a criminal appeal ("rayuan jenayah"), together with evidential questions such as the adverse-inference provision in "seksyen 114(g) Akta Keterangan 1950" (section 114(g) of the Evidence Act 1950). Appearing on both sides of the record, the practice is instructed in commercial, insurance and family disputes, in matters that turn on the construction of agreements and instruments and on the governing statutory framework.

The work turns on the construction of contracts and insurance policies and on the principles of family and evidence law. In the commercial matters the argument concerns the terms of the arrangement and whether goods were duly delivered and received; in the insurance matters the scope of cover and the insured's obligations; in the family matters the statutory framework governing divorce and custody; and in the evidence matters what may be proved and the inferences that may be drawn. Several matters engage the interaction between substantive rights and evidential rules.

The overall profile is a general civil-litigation practice spanning commercial, insurance and family disputes, conducted principally at first instance in the High Court. The matters turn on the construction of commercial and insurance contracts, the family-law framework, and the Evidence Act, rather than on any sustained criminal or public-law focus, marking a broad private-law disputes practice with a personal and commercial mix. The combination of commercial, insurance and family matters reflects a broad-based practice instructed across the range of private disputes rather than a single field.