FREE CIPAA 2012 CONSULTATION
We understand the financial pressure faced within the construction industry, especially in the time of pandemic. As part of our CSR initiatives, we now offer free CIPAA 2012 consultation for the first enquiry. There is no obligation on your part and you are free to walk away if you decide not to engage us as your representative.
At MalaysianCIPAA.my , our guiding principle is always to lend a free hand to the Contractors and Consultants from the unscrupulous Employer.
At the same time, we also provide consultation services to Employer against unreasonable Contractor / Consultant who seeks to take advantage of CIPAA to exert unnecessary and unfair pressure to the Employer.
In the effort to increase the transparency of our CIPAA 2012 representation service and to provide the fullest understanding to our valued client, we set out below the steps in our CIPAA 2012 consultation:-
Step 1 of CIPAA Consultation: Conflict check
We will first conduct a conflict and background check to ensure that there is no conflict of interest with our existing cases.
At this stage, we will enquire the project details (such as name, location, owner of the Project) and the parties’ involved.
At CIPAA Consulting, we value our client’s interest and we always put our client’s interest first. As such, we will have to turn away cases/brief where there is a potential conflict of interest.
Step 2 of CIPAA Consultation: Fact-finding
In order to give you a meaningful free CIPAA consultation and advice, we will conduct a fact-finding exercise. We will require information such as:-
- Nature of the dispute (whether this is an issue of non-certification, under-certification, non-payment of certificate, loss & expenses, etc
- The nature of work scope;
- The background giving rise to the dispute;
- The amount of outstanding payment;
At this stage, we will require you to inform us the predicament / difficulties faced. If need be, we will also review the relevant contract, documents and materials to further understand the matter.
All the information given and divulged to us will be kept private and confidential. We take clients’ privacy seriously and will not leak the information provided to any third party.
Step 3 of CIPAA Consultation: Identifying Instructions / Objectives
Moving forward, we will identify your objectives be it to suspend work, recover non-payment, to exert pressure to the opponent, or for a short-term solution to alleviate cashflow.
Step 4 of CIPAA Consultation: Advisory: Strategy / Solution / Moving Forward Plan
Lastly, we will give you a analysis, assessment and evaluation on the strength and weakness of your case.
In the case of launching a CIPAA claim, we will advise you on the viability of your claim not only in the legal and claim perspective but also on a pragmatic perspective, i.e. cost-benefit analysis.
If the situation permits, we will also provide on-going advisory work to build up your case.
In the case of defending a CIPAA claim, we will advise you on the strength of the CIPAA claim and the potential defences you may have against the CIPAA claim from both substantive and technical aspect.