Wee Yeong Kang

On the court record

Wee Yeong Kang appears in the reported corpus as counsel across criminal defence and insolvency litigation. On the criminal side he was engaged as counsel for the accused in a High Court drug trial where two accused were charged under seksyen 39B, seksyen 9 dan seksyen 6B ABD 1952 (sections 39B, 9 and 6B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952), and the court's catchwords record the outcome in its own words: Pendakwa Raya gagal tunjukkan kes prima facie - OKT1 dan OKT2 dibebas dan dilepaskan (the Public Prosecutor failed to establish a prima facie case — the two accused were acquitted and discharged) at the close of the prosecution case.

His insolvency work is visible in company and bankruptcy matters at the High Court. He was engaged as respondent's counsel in a post-winding-up application alleging misfeasance and fraudulent trading, a breach of fiduciary duties and the misapplication of company assets, where a preliminary question was whether a post-winding-up notice of motion constitutes an originating proceeding under the applicable practice direction. He also appeared as respondent's counsel in a bankruptcy matter — an appeal to a judge in chambers against the dismissal by the Deputy Registrar of an application to stay bankruptcy proceedings — where the questions were the court's power to grant a stay of bankruptcy proceedings and whether the reasons advanced by the judgment debtor were sufficient grounds. Across these reported decisions his work moves between the defence of a serious drug prosecution and the contest over corporate misfeasance and personal insolvency, marking Wee Yeong Kang as counsel comfortable in both criminal defence and insolvency litigation, and engaged with the prima-facie threshold in the one field and the recovery and stay mechanisms of insolvency in the other. The reported bankruptcy and post-winding-up matters, in which he acted for the respondent, illustrate the recurring contest between a judgment creditor or liquidator seeking to press home its remedy and a debtor or former officer resisting it, and round out a practice that pairs criminal defence with insolvency work.