Raymond Tan

On the court record

A corporate-and-civil litigation practice combining minority-oppression disputes with committal and case-management proceedings.

Raymond Tan practises in corporate and civil litigation, appearing across the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), with the reported decisions recording appearances as respondent, appellant and defendant. Company law is a defining subject: the reported matters engage minority oppression — the remedy available to a member whose interests have been unfairly prejudiced by the conduct of a company's affairs — and the shareholder disputes that give rise to it.

A distinctive procedural strand concerns the enforcement and management of proceedings. The reported matters engage committal proceedings — the process by which a party is brought before the court for an alleged contempt, such as the breach of an order — together with the transfer and consolidation of proceedings, by which related actions are brought together or moved between courts for efficient disposal. Appearing on both sides of the record, the practice is instructed in corporate disputes and in the procedural contests that shape how they are heard.

The work turns on the interpretation of the Companies Act and on the principles of civil procedure. In the oppression matters the argument concerns whether the affairs of the company were conducted unfairly toward a member and the remedy that should follow; in the committal matters whether an order has been breached and whether the conduct amounts to contempt; and in the transfer-and-consolidation matters whether the interests of justice favour bringing the proceedings together. The reported reasons frequently turn on the balance of rights within the company and on the management of the litigation.

The overall profile is a corporate-and-civil litigation practice conducted at first instance and on appeal, combining minority-oppression and shareholder disputes with committal and case-management proceedings. The matters turn on the Companies Act oppression remedy and the principles of civil procedure and contempt, rather than on any criminal or public-law dimension, marking a practice built around corporate disputes and the procedure that governs them.