Keshvinjeet Singh

On the court record

A general civil and commercial litigation practice weighted toward contract, insurance and commercial disputes.

Keshvinjeet Singh practises in civil and commercial litigation, appearing across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), with the reported decisions recording appearances as defendant, respondent, plaintiff and appellant. The caseload is contract and commercial. A recurring matter is an aviation-services dispute engaging the doctrine of privity of contract — which governs who may enforce a contract — together with insurance-contract disputes over the scope of cover and the insurer's liability.

A distinctive strand concerns professional conduct and the integrity of a judgment. The reported matters engage the legal profession and its standards, and an allegation that a judgment was obtained by fraud, which raises the exceptional grounds on which a concluded decision may be reopened. There is also striking-out work, in which a party seeks the summary termination of a claim or defence, and land and company questions. Appearing on both sides of the record, the practice is instructed in enforcing and in resisting commercial claims and in the procedural contests around them.

The work turns on the construction of contracts and on the principles of civil procedure. In the aviation and insurance matters the argument concerns the terms of the arrangement and who may enforce them; in the fraud matters the strict requirements for setting aside a judgment; in the striking-out matters whether the claim or defence is plainly unsustainable; and in the professional-conduct matters the standards governing legal practice. Several matters arise from a single underlying commercial dispute.

The overall profile is a general civil and commercial litigation practice conducted at first instance and on appeal, weighted toward contract, insurance and commercial disputes, with a recurring integrity-of-judgment and professional-conduct dimension. The matters turn on the construction of agreements, the doctrine of privity, and the finality of judgments, rather than on any criminal or public-law element.