Hannah Yeoh Yi Han

On the court record

Hannah Yeoh Yi Han appears in the reported corpus as company and commercial litigation counsel, with shareholder disputes, injunctions and the internal governance of companies among the reported matters. In one High Court matter she was engaged where a shareholder commenced an originating summons under section 346 of the Companies Act 2016, alleging that the affairs of a company had been conducted oppressively, unfairly prejudicially or in disregard of his interests, and sought declaratory relief. Her corporate-governance work appears in a cluster of Court of Appeal appeals on the doctrine of deemed retirement — whether a director due to retire by rotation under a company's articles of association can be deemed to have retired where the annual general meeting was not held and the retiring directors were not re-elected.

Her reported matters also reach injunctive relief and appellate procedure. She was engaged in a matter concerning an interlocutory injunction that drew together the Mental Health Act 2001, an anti-suit injunction, a quia timet injunction and section 54 of the Specific Relief Act 1950, argued around the presumption of mental capacity, the balance of convenience and whether the proceedings were frivolous and vexatious. She also appeared in an appeal argued on a judgment in Bahasa Malaysia, where the plaintiffs' claim against the first defendant had been struck out atas kegagalan mendapatkan kebenaran/izin daripada Mahkamah Kebankrapan (for failure to obtain the leave of the Bankruptcy Court), raising the need for leave to proceed against a party in bankruptcy. The reported matters place Hannah Yeoh Yi Han in company, shareholder-oppression and injunction litigation, engaging both the substantive law of corporate governance and the procedural gateways that attend it. Across these reported decisions her work spans the substantive law of shareholder protection and director tenure and the interlocutory relief — injunctions, stays and leave applications — that so often decides the practical outcome of a corporate dispute before any trial of the merits is reached.