Lau Kee Sern

On the court record

A civil-litigation practice in property, banking and company disputes, conducted mainly in the High Court.

Lau Kee Sern practises in civil litigation, appearing mainly in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) with some Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) work, and the reported decisions show him instructed on both sides of the record — as plaintiff and defendant, and on appeal as appellant and respondent. The caseload is property, banking and company disputes. Strata-management matters recur, including claims for arrears of maintenance charges, and there is judicial-sale and foreclosure work in which a chargee seeks to realise security over land.

The company side engages the shareholder-remedy provisions of the Companies Act 2016, including oppression proceedings under section 346, and winding-up and related insolvency questions. Banking and contract disputes round out the practice, and the procedural record includes a conditional stay application and other interlocutory contests over the conduct of the litigation. In several matters the court's reasons turn on a discrete point — for instance where the outcome is said to turn solely on the construction of a document or the satisfaction of a statutory condition.

The overall profile is a general civil-litigation practice weighted toward real property, secured lending and corporate disputes, conducted principally at first instance in the High Court. The matters turn on the interpretation of contracts and charges, the statutory framework governing strata developments and company remedies, and the procedural rules that shape how such disputes are pleaded, stayed and tried, rather than on any criminal or public-law element. The spread of roles across plaintiff and defendant, appellant and respondent, reflects a general civil-litigation practice rather than a single-client one, and the reported reasons frequently turn on a discrete construction or statutory-condition point that disposes of the dispute without a full trial on every issue raised. Strata management, foreclosure and company-oppression work sit at the centre of the reported matters, each governed by its own statutory scheme and each turning on the documents and conditions the parties agreed.