Reported by Saphna Ravichandran & Wong Zi Ying On 11th September 2020, the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) hosted a workshop on Understanding Esports: Legal Rights and Implications as part of the on-going AIAC September Sports Month…
Written by Richard Wee & Jacob Wong Introduction Winding up of a company means ending the business of the company by dissolving all the assets to pay off the creditors and subsequently distribute the remaining assets to…
Written by Ashley Yip, Richard Wee & Indthu Selvamuthu This article is related to a previous article related to the Constitutional Right to legal representation if detained by authorities. Introduction It is often said that a citizen has…
Written by Richard Wee & Jacob Wong A brief comment about shareholders role and rights under the Company Act 2016 of Malaysia Introduction Shareholders are the backbone and somewhat, owners of a company. It is imperative for shareholders…
Written by Richard Wee, Wong Zi Ying & Jacob Wong I will continue to fight for the human rights of female athletes, both on and off the track, until we can all run free the way we…
Written by Richard Wee & Wong Zi Ying “It was a mistake to de-regulate agents in 2015” — Emilio García Silvero (Chief Legal Officer, FIFA) Football agent, who is known as a football intermediary, is a representative and intermediary…
By Richard Wee, L.Lim & Marcus Leong (FIRST PUBLISHED HERE) In the words of Diego Maradona, the former Argentine professional footballer described Video Assistant Referee (VAR) as a “technology that brings transparency and quality that provides a positive outcome…
By Richard Wee and Saphna Ravichandran (First published here) The Sports Development Act was passed by Parliament and gazetted on 25 September 1997. It promotes and facilitates the development, administration and registration of sports in Malaysia. In order to achieve…
Written by Richard Wee & Jacob Wong Introduction From Konami Code in 1986 to the famous GTA code and today evolving into various types of different codes that could break the overall fairness of video games, distinctions…
Written by Richard Wee & Wong Zi Ying Introduction In the previous article, we introduced some of the legal disputes in esports and looked at a few examples of it. In this article, we continued to explore…