Jeslyn Ling Li Gin
About Jeslyn Ling Li Gin
Jeslyn Ling Li Gin appears as counsel of record in 6 reported Malaysia judgments (2026). These were heard before MYCOA (6).
On the court record
Jeslyn Ling Li Gin appears in the reported corpus as respondent's counsel in a substantial housing-development dispute before the Court of Appeal, a matter that draws together the statutory and contractual protections available to a house buyer. The proceedings engaged the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1976 and the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Regulations 1989, with the developer's obligations of good workmanship, quality materials and the standards expected of housing sold to a luxury standard at the centre of the dispute, and the limits on contracting out under regulation 11(1B) in issue.
Much of the reported reasoning turns on the mechanics through which a buyer enforces those protections. The court examined the scope of the defect liability period under the sale and purchase agreement and the recoverability of defects that are latent rather than patent, the evidentiary weight to be given to defect rectification forms and related records against allegations of forgery and the burden of proof, and the interpretation of the sale and purchase agreement by reference to business common sense and implied terms. Causation was addressed on a "but for" analysis where more than one cause was said to be in play, a recurring difficulty in construction-defect claims where responsibility for a defect may be shared. Acting for the respondent, her reported work engaged the balance between a developer's duty to deliver housing free of defects and the contractual devices — the defect liability period, contracting-out clauses and the documentary record of rectification — through which that duty is contested. The reported appearance places Jeslyn Ling Li Gin in the field of housing-development and construction-defect litigation at the appellate level, where the quality of construction and the integrity of the rectification paperwork are decisive. The reported reasoning, ranging over statutory duty, contractual mechanism and the honesty of the documentary record, makes the matter a useful worked example of how a house buyer's protections under the 1976 Act and the sale and purchase agreement are tested and defended in a contested defects claim.
How many cases has Jeslyn Ling Li Gin appeared in?
Jeslyn Ling Li Gin appears as counsel of record in 6 reported Malaysia judgments (2026).
Which courts does Jeslyn Ling Li Gin appear in?
Jeslyn Ling Li Gin appears before MYCOA (6).
What was the subject of Jeslyn Ling Li Gin's reported Court of Appeal matter?
A housing-development dispute engaging the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1976 and its 1989 Regulations — the developer's obligations of workmanship and quality, the defect liability period under the sale and purchase agreement, contracting-out limits under regulation 11(1B), and the recoverability of latent defects.
How was causation approached in the matter?
On a "but for" analysis where more than one cause was said to be in play — a recurring difficulty in construction-defect claims in which responsibility for a defect may be shared between parties.