Ivy Chin

On the court record

A mixed practice combining drug-related criminal work with contract, company and restitution litigation.

Ivy Chin appears across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), and the reported decisions describe a practice combining criminal and civil work. On the criminal side the matters engage drug trafficking under "seksyen 39B(1)(a) Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952" (section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952), read with the common-intention provision in "seksyen 34 Kanun Keseksaan" (section 34 of the Penal Code) and the lesser-offence provisions in "seksyen 12" of the Act.

On the civil side the reported matters engage contract disputes, the lifting of the corporate veil — where the court is asked to look behind a company's separate legal personality — and a claim in restitution for the recovery of a benefit conferred. Appearing as plaintiff, defendant and appellant, the practice is instructed on both sides of civil disputes and in criminal matters, in disputes that turn on the drug presumptions on the criminal side and on the construction of agreements and the doctrine of separate corporate personality on the civil side.

The work is document- and evidence-intensive across both fields. In the drug matters the argument concerns whether possession and knowledge were established and the presumptions properly drawn; in the contract matters the terms agreed and the consequences of breach; in the veil-lifting matters whether the exceptional circumstances justifying disregard of separate personality are present; and in the restitution matters whether a benefit was conferred that must be restored. The two strands share little doctrinally but both turn on close analysis of the facts.

The overall profile is a mixed practice combining drug-related criminal work with contract, company and restitution litigation, conducted in the High Court and Court of Appeal. The matters turn on the Dangerous Drugs Act on the criminal side and on contract, company and restitution principles on the civil side, rather than on public-law questions, marking a practice with a base across the criminal and civil courts.