Ong Siew Wan
About Ong Siew Wan
Ong Siew Wan appears as counsel of record in 4 reported Malaysia judgments (2024–2026). These were heard before MYHC (3) and MYCOA (1).
On the court record
The reported matters span probate, settlement-agreement and jurisdiction-and-procedure work, grounded in High Court and Court of Appeal judgments.
Ong Siew Wan's reported matters cover probate and the administration of estates, contract and settlement disputes, and questions of jurisdiction and procedure, argued in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. A probate decision concerned a grant of probate met by a caveat, and whether the dispute was suitable for summary disposal under Order 71 rule 38 of the Rules of Court 2012 or should proceed as a contentious action; appearing for a respondent, the matter tested the line between summary and full determination in a probate contest.
Estate litigation continued in a High Court suit connected to a deceased's affairs, in which he appeared for the defendants; after considering the principles governing costs, the Court ordered the plaintiff to pay the defendants costs of RM250,000, a figure reflecting the scale of the dispute.
Contract and procedure complete the profile. In a Court of Appeal matter arising from a settlement agreement and a supplementary agreement, where allegations of fraud, coercion, intimidation and undue influence were made and specific performance was sought, he appeared for a respondent; the Court allowed the respondents' motions to strike out the appeal and dismissed the appellant's motion to regularise the record of appeal, so the appeal did not proceed to a substantive hearing. In a further High Court matter he acted for a defendant on a jurisdictional question, whether there was a cause of action for determination under Order 11 of the Rules of Court over a third-party notice served out of jurisdiction. A thread across these decisions is the management of contested entitlements after death or agreement, and the procedural gateways, summary disposal, striking out and jurisdiction, that decide whether a claim is heard at all, argued in the High Court and before the Court of Appeal of Malaysia. The reported work is thus a blend of substantive estate and contract disputes with the procedural questions that so often determine their course, from the mode of trial to the regularity of an appeal.
How many cases has Ong Siew Wan appeared in?
Ong Siew Wan appears as counsel of record in 4 reported Malaysia judgments (2024–2026).
Which courts does Ong Siew Wan appear in?
Ong Siew Wan appears before MYHC (3) and MYCOA (1).
What areas of law feature in Ong Siew Wan's reported cases?
They include probate and estate administration, a settlement-agreement dispute involving fraud and undue-influence allegations, and jurisdictional and procedural questions such as service of a third-party notice out of jurisdiction.
What procedural question did the probate matter raise?
Whether a probate dispute met by a caveat was suitable for summary disposal under Order 71 rule 38 of the Rules of Court 2012 or should proceed as a contentious action; he appeared for a respondent.
What happened to the appeal in the settlement-agreement matter?
Appearing for a respondent, he succeeded on motions to strike out the appeal, and the appellant's motion to regularise the record of appeal was dismissed, so the appeal did not proceed to a substantive hearing.