Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram
About Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram
Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram appears as counsel of record in 6 reported Malaysia judgments (2025–2026). These were heard before MYCOA (5) and MYHC (1).
On the court record
Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram appears in the reported corpus as insolvency and commercial-litigation counsel, with the law of preferences and the assessment of damages among the reported matters. He was engaged as appellant's counsel in a cluster of Court of Appeal appeals arising from a company liquidation, where the allegations were of undue preference — premised on voluntary settlements said to have been made without valuable consideration and not in good faith — and of fraudulent preference, together with an application for a validation order in respect of a payment rendered void because it had been made after the presentation of the winding-up petition. The reported issues are of genuine doctrinal interest: the distinct statutory requirements governing undue preference as opposed to fraudulent preference, and whether proof of a dominant intention to prefer remains a necessary element of the claim.
His reported work also reaches the machinery of quantifying loss. In a matter argued on a judgment in Bahasa Malaysia he was engaged in a pentaksiran gantirugi (assessment of damages), where a notice for directions and a notice of appointment for the assessment of damages had been filed by the respondent and the application was allowed, the reported reasons reflecting the procedural steps through which a liability finding is translated into a monetary award. Across these reported decisions his work concentrates on corporate insolvency — the avoidance of preferential payments, the validation of transactions caught by a winding-up petition — and on the assessment stage that follows a finding of liability. The matters mark Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram as counsel engaged in insolvency and commercial litigation, arguing both the substantive law of preferences and the procedural steps by which loss is assessed and recovered. The reported matters, moving from the substantive avoidance provisions to the assessment of damages, illustrate how an insolvency dispute is fought both at the stage of establishing that a payment must be unwound and at the later stage of fixing what is to be recovered, and place him firmly in the corporate-insolvency field.
How many cases has Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram appeared in?
Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram appears as counsel of record in 6 reported Malaysia judgments (2025–2026).
Which courts does Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram appear in?
Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram appears before MYCOA (5) and MYHC (1).
What is the focus of Raj Shankar a/l Rajahram's reported work?
Insolvency and commercial litigation — undue and fraudulent preference and validation orders arising from a company liquidation, together with the assessment of damages following a finding of liability.
What preference question arose in his Court of Appeal appeals?
The distinct statutory requirements governing undue preference as opposed to fraudulent preference, and whether proof of a dominant intention to prefer remains a necessary element — argued alongside a validation order for a payment made void by the presentation of the winding-up petition.