Ung Zhee Laine

On the court record

Ung Zhee Laine's reported practice is in company and commercial litigation in the High Court, with a strong focus on fraud, corporate control and the procedural machinery that surrounds them. Across the matters she acts for plaintiffs and defendants.

A recurring theme is the impeachment of judgments and consent orders for fraud. In related suits involving Puncak Kenangan (M) Sdn Bhd and AT Masters Sdn Bhd, she acted for plaintiffs seeking to set aside a consent order alleged to have been procured by the conscious and deliberate concealment of material facts, on whether the test for fraud requires proof of conscious and deliberate dishonesty rather than mere unconscionability or constructive fraud, and whether the concealed facts were material in the sense that their disclosure would have fundamentally altered how the court decided the matter.

She is closely engaged with interlocutory and pleadings strategy. Acting for a defendant in a matter involving Ovanti Ventures Sdn Bhd, she contested a reply pleading said to introduce new allegations and causes of action, on whether a reply may depart from the statement of claim. In a related estate-linked suit she appeared on a security-for-costs application under Order 23 of the Rules of Court 2012, where a nominal plaintiff suing for the benefit of another and a non-party's contribution to costs in return for a share of recovery were in issue.

Her work also reaches the tools of urgent civil relief. Acting for defendants in a matter involving IOUPay Limited and iSentric Sdn Bhd, she was engaged on an Anton Piller order and the implied undertaking attaching to documents seized under it — whether those documents could be used in other civil and criminal proceedings, and whether the release of the undertaking served the interests of justice. The practice is company, fraud and procedural litigation, with a particular command of the interlocutory applications and threshold tests that dispose of a case before trial.