Mr. James Ee having the capability to read, speak and write
Chinese had worked as an Executive at Kurnia Insurance (M) Bhd. from 1997-1999. Meanwhile,
he obtained his law degree from University of London in 1998, Certificate of Legal Practice
in 1999 and Master in Law from University of Malaya in 2005.
Thereafter, he chambered at Messrs Dennis Nik & Wong under Mr.
Dennis Appaduray for 9 months from 1999-2000 and during his pupilage, he was involved in
“running down” matters, acted for and on behalf of Malaysia National Insurance Bhd. He was
called to the Malaysian Bar on 30th March, 2000 and was engaged as Legal Assistant at
Messrs. Chung, Chan & Hasnal (Kajang Branch) as Litigation Lawyer particularly in the area
of Insurance Law acting for and on behalf of the Plaintiffs in respects of Third Party
Property Damage Claims and Third Party Bodily injury claims.
Thereafter he established ‘Messrs Lau, Moghan & Ee’ and was in
this partnership for the period May 2002 until February 2011 before establishing the current
Law Practice. He has vast experience in high profile civil litigation matters involving
various area of law such as general debt collection, Insurance Law, Land Law, Banking Law,
Contract Law, Construction Law, Defamation Law, Injunction, Specific Performance, Divorce
matters, foreclosure proceedings and Probate/Letter of Administration.
He is currently the Legal Advisor to Dato’ Seri Michael Chong,
the Head of the Public Complaint Department of MCA. He is also the Legal Advisor to the
China Embassy office at Kuala Lumpur and has been appointed as honorary Legal Advisor to
PERWAKIM (Persatuan Wakil-Wakil Insuran Am Malaysia). He has also been engaged as legal
advisor by Public Listed Companies such as Hiap Teck Bhd, Perduren Bhd, AIR China, Eastern
Airline, Xiamen Airline and Huawei Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd. He also provides legal opinions
to the local councils such as Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya.
Mr. James Ee has been involved in quite a number of high profile
cases and examples of cases and awards are as follows:-
- (i) Mr. James Ee led the team of lawyers representing the
insured and successfully conducted and completed the trial in which the High Court of
Malaya at Shah Alam on 19th February 2016 awarded the highest insurances compensation
amounting to approximately RM109 million against Kurnia Insurance Berhad, the highest
award in Malaysia thus far.
- (ii) Mr. James Ee represented Madam Rachel Chung Shun
Yee, the Defendant against Ervin Ahbabovic, the Plaintiff where the Court dismissed the
suit by Ervin Ahbabovic against ex-girlfriend Madam Rachel Chung Shun Yee claiming that
she “abused” his sperm to get a child with European genes. It is believed this is the
first of its kind suit ever filed in Malaysia and even Asia. The Court allowed our
striking out application to strike out the suit on 31st December 2013.
- (iii) Mr. James Ee represented the Negeri Sembilan
Royalty in a legal tussle involving a RM600 million shareholders dispute.
- (iv) Mr. James Ee has appeared on TV news, RTM radio
interviews and in newspaper reports over various issues in the past.
