Dhinesh Bhaskaran

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution

Environmental

Medico-Legal

Regulatory, Compliance, Enforcement & Investigations

Arbitration and Mediation

Career

Civil, commercial and corporate litigation; arbitration; product liability; medical malpractice law; insurance law; and environmental law. Dhinesh has represented clients in a wide array of cases at all levels of the Malaysian Courts and in arbitrations in Malaysia and Singapore under the ICC, SIAC and KLRCA Rules.

Professional Memberships

• Past President, Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)

• Past President, Medico-Legal Society of Malaysia (MLSM)

• Member, Professional Indemnity Insurance Committee and Task Force on Combined Rules and Rules of Court of the Bar Council of Malaysia

• Advocacy and Appellate Advocacy Trainer, Bar Council of Malaysia

• Member, Joint-Committee of the Research and Ethics Committee of the International Medical University, Malaysia

• Member, Taylor’s Law School Legal Profession Advisory Panel

Publications

• Co-authored the Malaysian Chapters on Law & Practice and Trends & Developments in Chambers Global Practice Guide: Litigation (2022)

• The Malaysian Chapter in International Product Liability published by Juris Publishing Inc., USA (2012)

• The section on Malaysia in Freezing and Search Orders, 4th Edition, published by Informa Publishing Group Ltd., England (2006)

• The Malaysian Chapter in The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability published by the Global Legal Group Ltd., England (2004 to 2006)

• Advisory Editor for the section on Limitation of Actions in Volume 17 of Halsbury’s Laws of Malaysia (2003)

Languages Spoken

English, Malay

Experience

• Acting for the Respondent in an Arbitration in a RM12 billion joint venture dispute involving the construction of a major public transportation system

• Acting for the Malaysian Highway Authority in judicial review proceedings involving a challenge to the construction of a major RM4 billion urban highway and the related regulatory framework.

• Defending proceedings for the enforcement of a RM140 million Indonesian judgment debt, involving novel issues of law regarding defences which can be raised to resist the common law recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.

• Successfully represented a renowned international Spanish professional motorcycle racing team in a claim against their main sponsor for breach of contract and defamation.

• Successfully represented a prominent corporate figure in the first Malaysian case where damages were awarded for defamation on Twitter.

Education

Awards