Areas of Practice

Areas of Practice

Robert’s practice areas cover the range of public law and private law:

  • contracts and shareholder disputes
  • partnership and professional disciplinary matters
  • financial disputes
  • banking litigation
  • administrative law issues
  • contentious probate
  • tort-based causes of libel
  • trespass and land disputes

Notable Cases

Amongst recent cases where Robert was lead counsel:

Sun Media Corp Sdn Bhd v the Neilsen Company [2020] 6 MLJ 492

  • This case dealt with the issue of whether a person undertaking a syndicated survey consisting of a variety of products and services owed, in law, a duty of care to a party whose products and services were included in the survey

A Yogesvaran v Ampikaipakan & Ors 

  • The only reported case of a shareholder oppression suit in a company limited by guarantee formed for benevolent purposes

Pancaran Prima Sdn Bhd v Iswarabena Sdn Bhd and another appeal [2021] 1 MLJ 1a

  • Where the Federal Court decided that the power conferred on the arbitral tribunal under section 21(3)(b) of the Arbitration Act 2005 includes the power to draw on its own knowledge and expertise

Publications

Sweet & Maxwell