Ranjit Singh

On the court record

A civil-litigation practice weighted toward company, insolvency and professional-negligence disputes.

Ranjit Singh practises in civil litigation, appearing across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), with the reported decisions recording appearances as plaintiff, defendant, appellant, respondent and petitioner. The caseload is corporate, tort and public. Company-law disputes recur, including winding-up proceedings and the remedies available to members and creditors under the Companies Act, and there is medical-negligence work in which the reported matters engage the assessment of damages for injury caused by professional fault.

A distinctive strand engages constitutional and public-law questions alongside the private disputes, and the reported work includes originating summonses seeking declarations against a party, the vehicle by which a litigant asks the court to declare the parties' rights. Appearing on both sides of the record, the practice is instructed by companies, individuals and those seeking declaratory relief, in matters that turn on the governing statute, the assessment of loss, and the parties' legal rights.

The work turns on statutory interpretation, the principles of tort, and the assessment of damages. In the winding-up matters the argument concerns whether the statutory grounds for winding up a company are made out; in the negligence matters the standard of care, causation and the quantum of loss; and in the declaratory matters the parties' rights under the governing law. Several matters reach the Court of Appeal on questions of law arising from a High Court decision.

The overall profile is a general civil-litigation practice weighted toward company, insolvency and professional-negligence disputes, with a public-law and declaratory strand, conducted at first instance and on appeal. The matters turn on the Companies Act, the assessment of damages in negligence, and the principles governing declaratory relief, rather than on any criminal dimension, marking a broad civil and commercial disputes practice. The spread of roles across plaintiff, defendant and petitioner reflects a general litigation practice instructed across the range of corporate and personal disputes rather than tied to a single kind of client.