Manpal Singh Sacdev a/l Manjit Singh

On the court record

Manpal Singh Sacdev a/l Manjit Singh appears in the reported corpus as counsel in land-charge enforcement, company and judicial-review litigation across the High Court. A recurring theme is the order-for-sale jurisdiction over charged land. He was engaged in matters arising from a clash of claims over charged land and a moneylending agreement, where a chargee invoking a registered charge sought an order for sale under section 256 of the National Land Code, and the court considered whether the originating summons was premature under section 254(1), the effect of a 16D notice, and whether the agreement was void for non-adherence to the Moneylenders Act 1951 so as to amount to "cause to the contrary" under section 256(3).

His company work appears in a minority-oppression dispute concerning a business carried on as rice traders since 1981, where the parties had entered a consent order to pursue a valuation but could not later agree, one party filing a variation of the consent judgment and another a consequential order as ancillary to it, with liberty to apply in issue — a study in the practical difficulties of enforcing a negotiated resolution of a shareholder dispute. On the public-law side he was engaged in an application for judicial review to quash a notice issued under subsection 87(2) of the Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974, where the question was whether service of the notice on the applicant's solicitor was procedurally proper. Across these reported decisions he moves between secured-lending enforcement, shareholder litigation and administrative-law challenges, and the matters mark Manpal Singh Sacdev a/l Manjit Singh as counsel comfortable in land, company and judicial-review work, with the interaction of the National Land Code and the moneylending legislation a particular recurring theme. The recurring interaction between a chargee's statutory right to realise its security and a chargor's contention that the underlying loan offends the moneylending legislation gives several of the reported matters a common doctrinal spine, even as his wider practice reaches company and administrative-law disputes.