VICTORY BUILDERS SDN BHD v INFINITE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SDN BHD

ba-24c-25-04-2025 High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) 9 February 2026 • BA-24C-25-04/2025 • 22 min read

6 cases cited (0 SG, 6 foreign)

Catchwords

Construction Law — Adjudication — Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (“CIPAA”) — ss 15(b) & (d), 28 — Application to set aside adjudication decision and cross-application for enforcement — Scope of court’s supervisory jurisdiction — Whether court may review merits — Temporary finality of adjudication decision. Adjudication — Merits review — Complaints as to weight of evidence and sufficiency of reasoning — Whether failure to consider defence amounts to breach of natural justice — Whether adjudicator required to deal with every submission — Non-reviewability of factual findings. Court — Approach — Minimal intervention — Adjudication not appeal — Threshold for setting aside — Need for clear breach of natural justice or jurisdictional transgression. Adjudication — Enforcement — s 28 CIPAA — Whether adjudication decision valid and unpaid — Conditions for enforcement — Effect of dismissal of setting aside application — Enforcement granted.

Practice Areas

Construction Law

Judges (1)

Shahriza Zalina binti Abdul Shukor Delivered

Counsel (6)

Carmen & Fiona Firm Wayne Siang, Kai & Co. Firm Danny Soong Hou Ming Counsel Defendant Lee Kai Jun Counsel Plaintiff Ng Carmen Counsel Defendant Sia Chee Shen Counsel Plaintiff

Parties (2)

INFINITE PROJECT MANAGEMENT Sdn Bhd Respondent VICTORY BUILDERS Sdn Bhd Applicant

Cases Cited (6)

UK (2)

[2008] EWHC 2015 [2008] EWHC 282

MY (4)

[2015] MLJU 941 [2016] MLJU 1776 [2017] MLJU 242 [2020] 7 MLJ 482

Judgment

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