Vynny Wong Poh Yee

On the court record

Vynny Wong Poh Yee appears in the reported corpus as a commercial and property litigator, with strata management, injunctions and company disputes recurring across the High Court and Court of Appeal. One reported matter concerned arrears of maintenance charges and sinking-fund contributions under sections 59, 60(4) and 61(4) of the Strata Management Act 2013, where the court considered whether liability attaches to the parcel or to the proprietor and whether a purchaser who acquired a unit at a judicial sale by foreclosure is a successor in title to the defaulting proprietor. Her injunction practice is visible in a High Court dispute where the court applied the American Cyanamid principles to an application to restrain the payment and dissipation of funds, weighing serious issues to be tried, the adequacy of damages, the risk of dissipation, the balance of convenience and the clean-hands doctrine.

Her reported work extends across company and professional-liability litigation. She was engaged in an application to strike out an action under Order 18 rule 19 of the Rules of Court 2012 founded on the malicious institution of civil proceedings and conspiracy to injure, and in a substantial dispute alleging breach of a managing director's duties, conspiracy by unlawful and lawful means, and estoppel and res judicata under a consent judgment. She also appeared in a matter concerning receivers and managers appointed over charged assets, brought under section 383(2) and the Sixth Schedule of the Companies Act 2016 to protect a debenture holder, and in linked proceedings raising a conditional stay pending the risk of dissipation of a judgment sum and a claim in professional negligence against a firm of solicitors. The reported decisions present her as counsel across strata, injunction, company and professional-negligence litigation. In the conditional-stay matter the court considered whether a stay should be granted where there was a risk of dissipation of the judgment sum, and whether a condition requiring payment to be made to the solicitors for both parties on an equal basis would itself lead to that dissipation.