Ong Kang Nyong

On the court record

Ong Kang Nyong appears in the reported corpus as a company and civil litigator, with winding-up, probate and general commercial disputes among the reported matters across the High Court and Court of Appeal. His insolvency work is visible in a winding-up petition brought on the just and equitable ground, founded on a breakdown of mutual trust and confidence in a shareholders' dispute, where the question was whether the conflict related to the management and affairs of the company or to private matters arising from probate proceedings and a deceased shareholder's estate. He was also engaged in a further winding-up petition attended by interlocutory applications — to appoint an interim liquidator, to strike out the petition, for an ad interim stay and to expunge affidavits — and in an application to strike out portions of pleadings, affidavits and submissions said to be scandalous, irrelevant or prejudicial.

His reported work reaches the law of wills and the enforcement of judgments. He appeared as respondent's counsel in a Court of Appeal matter on the testator's knowledge and approval of the terms of a will and whether suspicious circumstances surrounding its making, if not dispelled, should move the court not to admit it to probate, and in a matter on leave to execute a judgment under Order 46 rule 2 of the Rules of Court 2012, where the question was whether the judgment had been superseded by a settlement agreement. His reported matters also include a claim combining contract and negligence over the safety of a hotel guest, engaging duty of care, foreseeability and the maintenance of facilities. Across these reported decisions his work moves between corporate insolvency, probate and general civil litigation, marking Ong Kang Nyong as counsel across company and civil disputes. Across these reported decisions the recurring thread is the point at which private grievance and corporate machinery meet — a shareholders' falling-out spilling into a winding up, a disputed will, a settlement said to have overtaken a judgment — and the procedural tools through which such disputes are pressed or resisted.