Wilson Lim Mao Shen

On the court record

Wilson Lim Mao Shen appears in the reported corpus as a commercial litigator, with contract, insolvency and winding-up matters recurring across the High Court. In one reported dispute he 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. His insolvency practice is prominent: in a winding-up petition the court considered whether it had jurisdiction under sections 469(1)(c) and 469(3) of the Companies Act 2016 to grant an "unless" order allowing a substantial petition debt to be paid by instalments, and whether an admission of inability to pay a lump sum amounted to commercial insolvency fatal to the application; in another he appeared where a contributory sought leave under section 486(2) of the Companies Act 2016 to continue arbitration proceedings on behalf of a wound-up company that had a substantial counterclaim.

His contract work runs from summary judgment to full trial. In a rayuan atas keputusan Penghakiman Terus HMS di bawah A.14 k.1 KKM 2012 (an appeal against a Sessions Court's summary judgment under Order 14 rule 1 of the Rules of Court 2012) concerning a debt for the supply of diesel to ferries operating at Langkawi, the court held that the claim was clear, that there was no defence, and that the allegation of a false or fraudulent claim was unsupported. He was also engaged in a sale-and-purchase dispute over the location of a car park and the developer's obligation to allocate it, seeking specific performance; in a claim for fundamental breach and repudiation of a sales contract engaging sections 40 and 76 of the Contracts Act 1950 and the contra proferentem rule; and in a contract-formation dispute over whether a loan agreement was made between corporate entities or individuals. The reported decisions mark him as counsel across contract, insolvency and winding-up litigation.