Tharminder Singh

On the court record

A corporate and insolvency litigation practice in the High Court, featuring winding-up, Fortuna injunctions and civil-procedure work.

Tharminder Singh practises in civil and commercial litigation, appearing principally in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), with the reported decisions weighted toward the plaintiff side but also recording appearances as defendant, intervener, appellant and applicant. The caseload is corporate and insolvency-focused. Company-law disputes recur, and a distinctive strand is the Fortuna injunction — an application to restrain the presentation or advertisement of a winding-up petition where the debt is disputed on substantial grounds — which sits at the intersection of company and civil-procedure law.

Winding-up and insolvency questions run through the reported matters, engaging the presentation of petitions and the provisions of the Companies Act 2016 that govern them, together with probate and estate questions and insurance-contract disputes. The civil-procedure content is prominent: the decisions include discovery applications under Order 24 of the Rules of Court 2012 and judgments delivered after trial, so the practice combines interlocutory strategy with the conduct of contested trials to judgment.

The work is document-driven and turns on the interaction between substantive company law and the procedural tools that shape corporate disputes. In the Fortuna and winding-up matters the argument is whether a debt is genuinely disputed and whether the insolvency process is being used as an instrument of pressure; in the discovery and interlocutory matters it is whether a party is entitled to particular documents or relief before trial; and in the estate and insurance matters it is the construction of the instrument and the parties' entitlements.

The overall profile is a corporate and insolvency litigation practice with a strong civil-procedure component, conducted mainly at first instance in the High Court. The reported reasons turn on the Companies Act, the rules of court and the equitable principles governing injunctions, rather than on any criminal or public-law element, marking a practice built around company disputes and the procedure that governs them.