COMPANIES
18 cases · November 2018 to July 2026
Case Volume by Year
1 18
1 23
1 25
15 26
2018–2026
Key Issues & Sub-Topics
Oppression — Buy-out order — Non-compliance — Whether separate winding-up petition maintainable by non-party to oppression proceedings — Cumulative remedies 3 Judicial management — Corporate rescue — Moratorium — Section 410, Companies Act 2016 — Sections 404, 405, 411 and 414(7), Companies Act 2016 — Whether statutory moratorium restrains disconnection of electricity supply for pre-judicial management debt — Interaction between judicial management regime and statutory utility powers — Essential supplies — Preservation of company as a going concern. 1 Statutory derivative action — Personal action — Distinction between shareholder’s personal claim and company’s cause of action — Proper plaintiff rule — Company appearing as plaintiff in derivative action and defendant in personal action — Sections 347 and 348 Companies Act 2016 — Whether derivative action and personal action should be heard together. 1 Winding up — Just and equitable ground — Quasi-partnership — Breakdown of mutual trust and confidence — Alleged deadlock — Exclusion from management — Solvent company — Remedy of last resort — Availability of alternative remedy — Oppression remedy — Share buy-out — Whether winding-up appropriate — Companies Act 2016, ss 346, 347, 439(1)(b), 464, 465(1)(h). 1 Winding up — Just and equitable ground — Deadlock — Meaning of deadlock — Company continuing to trade — Distinction between deadlock and exclusion from management — Whether substratum failed. 1 Winding up — Discretion — Solvent company — Equitable jurisdiction — Alternative statutory remedies — Compulsory winding-up refused. 1 Oppression — Exclusion from management — Buy-out remedy — Adequate alternative remedy — Companies Act 2016, s 346. 1 Derivative proceedings — Alleged misappropriation of company assets — Proper plaintiff rule — Companies Act 2016, s 347. 1 Winding up — Creditor’s petition — Inability to pay debts — Statutory demand — Unsatisfied judgment debt — Whether company deemed unable to pay its debts — Test of commercial or cash-flow solvency, not balance-sheet solvency — Presumption of insolvency unrebutted — Companies Act 2016, ss 465(1)(e) and 466(1)(a). 1 Winding up — Advertisement of petition — Mandatory requirement protective of persons not before the court — Proof of due advertisement — Cut-and-paste newspaper clippings beneath superscribed dates — Impossible publication date sworn in supporting affidavit and memorandum — Whether due advertisement proved — Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972, rr 24 and 192(4). 1 Winding up — Amended petition — Gazetting and advertisement preceding the amendment — Whether amended petition duly gazetted and advertised — Absence of gazetting of amended petition — Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972, r 24(a). 1 Winding up — Registrar’s Certificate — Role and effect — Whether conclusive — Certificate under r 32(1) not conclusive and may be gone behind where issued otherwise than upon due compliance — Conclusive only where nothing indicates defect — Independent duty of court — Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972, r 32(1) — Juasa Holdings Sdn Bhd & Ors v Arah Pendidikan Sdn Bhd [2017] 1 LNS 1206. 1 Winding up — Formal defect — Whether want of due advertisement a formal irregularity capable of being overlooked — Defect of substance affecting non-parties — Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972, r 194. 1 Winding up — Disposition — Petition dismissed notwithstanding inability to pay debts — Dismissal without prejudice to a fresh petition and to the judgment debt. 1 Winding up — Company in liquidation — Liquidator — Powers and duties of liquidator — Liquidator’s sanction — Continuation of proceedings by company in liquidation — Authority to prosecute action in company’s name — Delegation of liquidator’s litigation powers — Scope of Twelfth Schedule Companies Act 2016 — Companies Act 2016, s 486 and Twelfth Schedule — Court’s supervisory jurisdiction over liquidation — Retrospective sanction nunc pro tunc — Distinction between wholesale delegation and continuation by existing solicitors — Proper plaintiff — Locus standi of company in liquidation — Validity of liquidator’s authorisation — Existing solicitors continuing proceedings after winding up — Litigation control by liquidator — Creditor-funded litigation — Reconciling conflicting High Court authorities — Oren Venture distinguished — Ooi Kim Geik applied — MKP Builders considered — Winstech Engineering applied — Substance over form approach in liquidation proceedings — Directors — Fiduciary duties — Breach of fiduciary duty — Breach of statutory duty — Fraud — Breach of trust — Diversion of corporate opportunity — Secret profits — Conflict of interest — Misappropriation of company funds — Unauthorized purchases — Director trading through competing business — Concealment of material facts — Abuse of fiduciary position — Companies Act 2016, ss 213, 218 & 221 — Evidence Act 1950, ss 106 & 114(g) — Adverse inference — Trial in absence of defendant — Order 35 rule 1(2) Rules of Court 2012 — Burden of proof in ex parte civil trial — Equitable fraud — Account and inquiry — Indemnity against director — Exemplary damages — Aggravated damages — Foreign currency judgment — Miliangos principle — Corporate governance — Malaysian company law 1 Winding up — Fortuna injunction — Application to restrain creditor from presenting and proceeding with winding-up petition — Debt founded on unstayed judgment — Whether company established bona fide dispute on substantial grounds — Whether pending appeal sufficient to justify injunctive restraint — Sections 465(1)(e) and 466(1)(a) Companies Act 2016 1 Winding up — Judgment debt — Effect of pending appeal — Whether filing of appeal altered legal character of judgment debt — Whether unstayed judgment remained valid and enforceable pending appeal 1 Winding up — Bona fide dispute — Grounds challenging summary judgment — Whether complaints relating to quantification, unconscionability and enforcement transformed judgment debt into disputed debt 1 Restructuring and insolvency — Scheme of arrangement — Judicial management — Proposed sukuk or bond issuance — Whether restructuring efforts and proposed financing sufficient to restrain statutory winding-up process 1 Winding up — Abuse of process — Whether intended winding-up proceedings abusive where founded on valid and unstayed judgment debt 1
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Oppression — Buy-out order — Non-compliance — Whether separate winding-up petition maintainable by non-party to oppression proceedings — Cumulative remedies 3 cases
Judicial management — Corporate rescue — Moratorium — Section 410, Companies Act 2016 — Sections 404, 405, 411 and 414(7), Companies Act 2016 — Whether statutory moratorium restrains disconnection of electricity supply for pre-judicial management debt — Interaction between judicial management regime and statutory utility powers — Essential supplies — Preservation of company as a going concern. 1 case
Winding up — Just and equitable ground — Deadlock — Meaning of deadlock — Company continuing to trade — Distinction between deadlock and exclusion from management — Whether substratum failed. 1 case
Winding up — Discretion — Solvent company — Equitable jurisdiction — Alternative statutory remedies — Compulsory winding-up refused. 1 case
Oppression — Exclusion from management — Buy-out remedy — Adequate alternative remedy — Companies Act 2016, s 346. 1 case
Derivative proceedings — Alleged misappropriation of company assets — Proper plaintiff rule — Companies Act 2016, s 347. 1 case
Winding up — Creditor’s petition — Inability to pay debts — Statutory demand — Unsatisfied judgment debt — Whether company deemed unable to pay its debts — Test of commercial or cash-flow solvency, not balance-sheet solvency — Presumption of insolvency unrebutted — Companies Act 2016, ss 465(1)(e) and 466(1)(a). 1 case
Winding up — Advertisement of petition — Mandatory requirement protective of persons not before the court — Proof of due advertisement — Cut-and-paste newspaper clippings beneath superscribed dates — Impossible publication date sworn in supporting affidavit and memorandum — Whether due advertisement proved — Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972, rr 24 and 192(4). 1 case
Winding up — Amended petition — Gazetting and advertisement preceding the amendment — Whether amended petition duly gazetted and advertised — Absence of gazetting of amended petition — Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972, r 24(a). 1 case
Winding up — Registrar’s Certificate — Role and effect — Whether conclusive — Certificate under r 32(1) not conclusive and may be gone behind where issued otherwise than upon due compliance — Conclusive only where nothing indicates defect — Independent duty of court — Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972, r 32(1) — Juasa Holdings Sdn Bhd & Ors v Arah Pendidikan Sdn Bhd [2017] 1 LNS 1206. 1 case
Winding up — Formal defect — Whether want of due advertisement a formal irregularity capable of being overlooked — Defect of substance affecting non-parties — Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972, r 194. 1 case
Winding up — Disposition — Petition dismissed notwithstanding inability to pay debts — Dismissal without prejudice to a fresh petition and to the judgment debt. 1 case
Winding up — Fortuna injunction — Application to restrain creditor from presenting and proceeding with winding-up petition — Debt founded on unstayed judgment — Whether company established bona fide dispute on substantial grounds — Whether pending appeal sufficient to justify injunctive restraint — Sections 465(1)(e) and 466(1)(a) Companies Act 2016 1 case
Winding up — Judgment debt — Effect of pending appeal — Whether filing of appeal altered legal character of judgment debt — Whether unstayed judgment remained valid and enforceable pending appeal 1 case
Winding up — Bona fide dispute — Grounds challenging summary judgment — Whether complaints relating to quantification, unconscionability and enforcement transformed judgment debt into disputed debt 1 case
Restructuring and insolvency — Scheme of arrangement — Judicial management — Proposed sukuk or bond issuance — Whether restructuring efforts and proposed financing sufficient to restrain statutory winding-up process 1 case
Winding up — Abuse of process — Whether intended winding-up proceedings abusive where founded on valid and unstayed judgment debt 1 case
Winding up — Irreparable prejudice — Commercial consequences of winding-up petition — Whether alleged reputational and commercial harm alone sufficient to justify restraining creditor from exercising statutory rights 1 case
Winding up — Creditor’s petition — Petition founded on unstayed judgment debt — Whether pending appeal rendered debt disputed — Whether judgment debt could support statutory demand and winding-up petition — Sections 465(1)(e), 465(1)(h) and 466(1)(a) Companies Act 2016 1 case
Winding up — Statutory demand — Presumption of inability to pay debts — Failure to pay, secure or compound debt within 21 days — Whether statutory presumption under s 466(1)(a) arose and remained unrebutted 1 case
Winding up — Bona fide dispute — Distinction between disputed contractual debt and judgment debt — Whether challenges to rates, ta’widh and IIMM calculations constituted substantial dispute after entry of judgment 1 case
Winding up — Winding-up court — Scope of jurisdiction — Whether winding-up court entitled to go behind subsisting judgment absent fraud, collusion or exceptional circumstances — Whether merits of judgment could be collaterally re-litigated in winding-up proceedings 1 case
Winding up — Commercial insolvency — Test of solvency — Whether respondent established ability to pay debts as they fell due — Whether existence of unrealised assets sufficient to rebut presumption of insolvency 1 case
Restructuring and insolvency — Judicial management — Prior dismissal of judicial management application as abuse of process — Whether absence of restructuring protection relevant to winding-up proceedings 1 case
Winding up — Just and equitable winding up — Whether necessary to determine separately ground under s 465(1)(h) once inability to pay debts established under s 465(1)(e) 1 case
Winding up by court — Creditor’s petition — Petition founded on judgment debt — Judgment in default of appearance — Judgment debt remaining unsatisfied — Debt exceeding prescribed statutory threshold — Company deemed unable to pay debts — Statutory demand under s 466(1)(a) Companies Act 2016 — Service of statutory demand at registered office — Failure to satisfy demand within 21 days — Presumption of insolvency — Commercial insolvency — No affidavit in opposition filed — No appearance by company — No bona fide dispute raised — No cross-claim asserted — No application for Fortuna injunction — Exercise of court’s discretion to wind up company — Winding-up order granted — Official Receiver appointed liquidator. 1 case
Key Statutes
Companies Act 2016 (Cap 777)
cited in 6 cases Courts of Judicature Act 1964 (Cap 91)
cited in 4 cases Companies Act 1965 (Cap 777)
cited in 3 cases Court Distribution
Key People & Firms
Top Judges
Raja Segaran a/l S.krishnan 9 Yusrin Faidz bin Yusoff 3 Jamhirah binti Ali 2 Hasnah binti Dato' Mohammed Hashim 1 Mary Lim Thiam Suan 1 Vernon Ong Lam Kiat 1 Rohana binti Yusuf 1 Alizatul Khair binti Osman Khairuddin 1 Zaharah binti Ibrahim 1 Zainun binti Ali 1 Panglima Richard Malanjum 1 Elaine Yap Chin Gaik 1 Helmi bin Hamzah 1
Top Firms
Top Lawyers
Afifi bin Ahmad 1 Fatin Adriana Binti Mohd Nizam 1 Wan Muhammad Haziq Irfan bin Wan Mohd Hafizi 1 Wong Yan Zhang 1 Bahari Yeow 1 Lim Zhi Jian 1 Ling Siew Hui 1 Kang Mei Yee 1 Engku Nursuhaila Binti Engku Zain 1 Justin Voon Tiam Yu 1 Alex De Silva 1 Tan Ko Xin 1 Nadesh Ganabaskaran 1 G.Ragumaren 1 Erica Sree 1
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