Written by Richard Wee, Wendy Ho and Jeremy Ling Tze Yu Introduction ‘e-KYC’ stems from the acronym ‘KYC’ (Know Your Customer). As the name suggests, KYC is a mandatory practice or process imposed upon businesses to verify the…
Written by Richard Wee, Wong Zi Ying and Jeremy Ling Tze Yu 2021 has been off to a rough start. As COVID-19 continues to topple the healthcare system and strip the nation of its livelihood, the Yang di-Pertuan…
Written by Wendy Ho and Jeremy Ling Tze Yu On the 13th of January 2021, RWC’s managing partner Mr. Richard Wee was invited by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) vide the Fintech Booster platform to speak…
Written by Richard Wee and Ian Phua Lately the internet has been flooded with the legal battle between Epic Games and Apple, what is it all about? Epic Games Inc. “Epic”, the well known American video game software developer…
Written by Ian Phua Recently, the Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia has appointed the Esports groups “The Pantheon” to organise a series of webinars on Esports Skills 2.0. The focus of the webinars is not about…
Written by Richard Wee and Wendy Ho. Feel free to contact the authors for further clarification on IPO vide justright@richardweechambers.com. On the 26th of October 2020, MR D.I.Y. Group (M) Berhad, Malaysia’s largest home improvement retailer successfully made its…
Written by Marlysa Razak and Wong Zi Ying This article is related to our previous article entitled “Should Short-Term Rental Accommodation be regulated?” published on Richard Wee Chambers’ website. “The passing of the house rules is not unlawful.” —Chief…
Written by Richard Wee & Jacob Wong Introduction A director can be an individual or member from a company that is elected to be in the company’s board of directors. The main responsibilities of the board of…
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, Lesley Lim & Marcus Leong (FIRST PUBLISHED ON MAHWENGKWAI & ASSOCIATES’ WEBSITE 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…
By Richard Wee and Saphna Ravichandran (First published on MahWengKwai & Associates’ website 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…
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…
Reported by Ashley Yip On the 4th of September, the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) held a workshop at their auditorium. The topic of the seminar was about the Introduction to Sports Dispute Resolution. It is part…
Written by Richard Wee, Low May Ping and Wong Zi Ying Introduction Esports has been rapidly growing in recent years and this has attracted many investors to enter into this industry. Due to the unorthodox and novel…