Li-Wei is a Partner in CLO’s Dispute Resolution & Litigation Practice Group, specialising in construction and engineering disputes.
She has been involved in arbitrations under the ICC Rules, AIAC Rules, SIAC Rules, ad hoc arbitration, as well as adjudications pursuant to the Construction Industry and Payment Adjudication Act 2012 and regularly appears in the Malaysian Courts.
She also has an extensive adjudication practice. She represents clients both as claimants and respondents in adjudications and also appears in the courts to to challenge and or resist challenges to adjudication decisions.
Her experience in relation to construction and engineering disputes includes airport projects, high-rise buildings (including mixed developments and hotels), railway tracks, water bunded storage, refineries, floating production storage & offloading, bridges, hospital and sewerage treatment plants. These disputes involve various technical and engineering issues such as geotechnical, slope stability issues, piling, geochemical, chemical treatment for water, value engineering, delay and acceleration. Li-Wei is very interested in these technical and engineering issues and often provides advice on claims and potential claims to be made against the contractor and/or employer.
Apart from construction and engineering dispute practice, Li-Wei is also actively involved in civil disputes as well as administrative matters and appears in the High Court as well as the appellate courts for hearings and trials. Her experience on this includes disputes relating to land, planning permission, contractual and estate disputes.
EXPERIENCE
- Represented a property developer in a landmark matter, successfully overturning the High Court’s decision granting the purchasers’ judicial review application to quash the extension of time granted by the Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government. Also successfully resisted the purchasers’ application for leave to appeal to the Federal Court.
- Successfully acted in the Court of Appeal in setting aside an adjudication decision, with the Court holding that the adjudicator had acted in excess of jurisdiction and in breach of natural justice.
