Dr Chee Hui Bing — Advocate & Solicitor, former Medical Doctor

Dr Chee Hui Bing is a Malaysian Advocate & Solicitor and the principal of Chris & Partners Advocates & Solicitors, based in Batu Pahat, Johor. He holds qualifications in both medicine and law, having practised as a medical doctor at Hospital Batu Pahat and Putra Specialist Hospital before being admitted to the Malaysian Bar.

The combination is uncommon in Malaysian legal practice and shapes the firm’s specialisation in medical negligence, healthcare regulation and personal injury work. Clinical records, treatment standards, expert reports and operating-theatre procedures are evaluated with first-hand familiarity. Outside the medico-legal field, Dr Chee conducts civil and criminal litigation in the Magistrates’, Sessions and High Court across Johor, with referral work in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.

Clinical career

  • Hospital Batu Pahat — medical practice prior to legal career
  • Putra Specialist Hospital — medical practice prior to legal career
  • Direct clinical exposure to surgical, obstetric, paediatric, internal-medicine and emergency-department settings relevant to current medico-legal practice

Legal career

  • Admitted to the Malaysian Bar as Advocate & Solicitor
  • Founded / leads Chris & Partners Advocates & Solicitors, Batu Pahat, Johor
  • Practice areas: medical negligence, defamation, civil litigation, criminal litigation, personal injury, healthcare risk management
  • Working languages: English, Bahasa Malaysia, Mandarin Chinese

Professional memberships

  • Malaysian Bar — Member
  • Johore Bar Committee — Member
  • Medico-Legal Society of Malaysia

Areas of practice & specialisation

Medical negligence — conducted under the Bolam-Bolitho composite standard (Bolam v Friern HMC [1957] 1 WLR 582 as qualified by Bolitho v City and Hackney HA [1998] AC 232), with the Rogers v Whitaker test for the duty to advise of risks (adopted by the Federal Court in Foo Fio Na v Dr Soo Fook Mun [2007] 1 MLJ 593). Misdiagnosis, surgical error, birth injury, informed-consent disputes; six-year limitation under the Limitation Act 1953.

Defamation — Defamation Act 1957, libel and slander, online defamation across Facebook/WhatsApp/TikTok, Norwich Pharmacal disclosure, interim injunctions, takedown.

Civil litigation — Rules of Court 2012; contract, tort, commercial, real-property, employment, banking and debt-recovery work across the Magistrates’, Sessions and High Court.

Criminal litigation — Criminal Procedure Code, Penal Code, Dangerous Drugs Act 1952; bail, charge sheets, plea bargaining, trial, sentencing, criminal appeals.

Languages

  • English — fluent (working language of the firm)
  • Bahasa Malaysia — fluent (court advocacy)
  • Mandarin Chinese — fluent (Chinese-speaking client communication)

Representative work

Bar-compliant phrasing — the firm’s experience is described by category of matter, never by named clients or guaranteed outcomes.

  • Medical negligence claims involving misdiagnosis, surgical error, birth injury and informed-consent disputes against private and government hospitals
  • Online defamation matters involving Norwich Pharmacal applications and interim injunctions across Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok and online news
  • Civil litigation in commercial contract disputes, debt recovery and bankruptcy proceedings
  • Criminal defence in matters under the Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and Dangerous Drugs Act 1952

Contact

Office: No 1-10 (1st Floor), Jalan Maju 1, Taman Maju, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor
Telephone: +60 17-702 2800
Email: [email protected]
Hours: Monday to Friday, 08:00–20:00 (Malaysia Standard Time)