Ng Wee Li

On the court record

A public-law and revenue litigation practice combining judicial review with disciplinary and assessment matters.

Ng Wee Li practises in public-law and revenue litigation, appearing across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), with the reported decisions weighted toward the respondent side. Administrative law is prominent: judicial-review applications recur, and the reported matters engage constitutional-law questions and challenges to the decisions of public bodies, including a dismissal from the police force — a matter engaging the disciplinary framework governing public servants.

There is also a revenue strand: the reported work includes an appeal against an assessment, engaging the machinery by which a taxpayer or a person subject to a statutory levy challenges the amount demanded. Appearing largely as respondent, but also as defendant and appellant, the practice is instructed both in defending and in challenging the decisions of public authorities, in matters that turn on the interpretation of statute and on the fairness and legality of official action.

The work turns on questions of law and administrative principle rather than on primary fact-finding. In the judicial-review matters the argument concerns whether the decision-maker acted within jurisdiction and fairly; in the dismissal matters whether the disciplinary process complied with the governing rules and the requirements of natural justice; and in the assessment matters whether the statutory levy was correctly imposed. The reported reasons address the reviewability of official decisions and the standards to which public bodies are held.

The overall profile is a public-law and revenue litigation practice conducted at first instance and on appeal, combining judicial review and constitutional questions with disciplinary and assessment matters. The matters turn on the principles of judicial review, the disciplinary frameworks governing public servants, and the interpretation of the statutes under which assessments and decisions are made, rather than on any criminal or commercial dimension, marking a practice concentrated on the accountability of public authorities.