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AMFRASER SECURITIES PTE LTD v. POH GAIK LYE [2016] 6 CLJ 637 BANKRUPTCY: Bankruptcy notice - Setting aside - Summary judgment - Notice issued more than six years after judgment without prior leave of court - Whether notice bad in law - Whether judgment creditor not `a person who is for the time being entitled to enforce a final judgment' - Whether leave imperative and must be applied for - Whether bankruptcy notice ought to be set aside - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 46 r. 2(a) - Bankruptcy Act 1967, proviso to s. 3(1) CIVIL PROCEDURE: Leave - Leave to issue bankruptcy notice - Issuance of notice six years after judgment - Whether must obtain leave of court - Whether judgment creditor not `a person who is for the time being entitled to enforce a final judgment' - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 46 r. 2(a) - Bankruptcy Act 1967, proviso to s. 3(1) TENAGA NASIONAL BHD lwn. RICHWISE SDN BHD [2016] 1 SMC 254 UTILITI-UTILITI: Elektrik - Usikan pada meter elektrik - Kegagalan merekodkan kegunaan elektrik yang sebenar - Sama ada pekerja plaintif kompeten untuk melakukan pemeriksaan terhadap meter elektrik - Sama ada defendan adalah pihak yang akan mendapat manfaat jika bacaan meter mencatat bacaan yang kurang - Sama ada pembelaan defendan bermerit - Sama ada jumlah pengiraan kerugian hasil menjadi keterangan prima facie - Sama ada defendan berjaya menunjukkan bahawa pengiraan yang dilakukan oleh plaintif adalah salah - Tenaga Nasional Bhd v. AWP Enterprise (M) Sdn Bhd To view a sample of the Sessions and Magistrates' Cases journal, click here. For product enquiries, contact priority@cljlaw.com. JUDICIAL QUOTES
[2] Issue: As to the circumstances in which Magistrates and Sessions Court judges could order a discharge not amounting to an acquittal or a discharge amounting to an acquittal, as the case may be, under s. 254 of the Criminal Procedure Code; and whether the learned Sessions Court judge herein was right in ordering a ‘discharge not amounting to an acquittal’ in circumstances where the complainant has withdrawn the police report against the accused and the accused has written a representation to the Attorney General for the withdrawal of the charge, but where the prosecution itself shows no certainty whether to proceed with the case in the future or not, or fails to give good grounds for requesting for a ‘discharge not amounting to an acquittal’.
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CLJ 2016 Volume 6 (Part 5)
FEDERAL COURT Amfraser Securities Pte Ltd v. Poh Gaik Lye Gan Boon Aun v. PP COURT OF APPEAL Chin Chee Keong v. Toling Corporation (M) Sdn Bhd Foo Ah Kow & Anor v. Yeap Poh Lum & Ors Foo Jong Wee & Ors v. Hj Afifi Hj Hassan Sejati Education Sdn Bhd v. S3m Development (Sabah) Sdn Bhd HIGH COURT Growth Enterprise Sdn Bhd v. Rafaeh Mohamad Nor & Ors Ho Yee Chin v. Ho Min Hao & Ors Kerajaan Malaysia v. Tasja Sdn Bhd Liong Seow Keng & Ors v. Ho Soon Cheng Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia v. Nik Roskiman Abdul Samad & Anor SUBJECT INDEX ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Judicial review - Certiorari - Application to quash award of Industrial Court - Employee's post as lecturer at university subjected to employee obtaining PhD - Failure to obtain PhD - Termination from employment - Whether university entitled to terminate employee - Industrial Court held that employee was dismissed without just cause or excuse - Whether findings of Industrial Court based on unpleaded issue - Whether Industrial Court ought not to consider issue not raised in pleadings - Whether award of Industrial Court ought to be quashed - Industrial Relations Act 1967, s. 20(1) - Industrial Court Rules, r. 9(3) ARBITRATION Award - Interest - Whether arbitrator has discretion to award pre-award interest - Whether arbitrator erred in awarding pre-award interest - Far East Holdings Bhd v. Majlis Ugama Islam Dan Adat Resam Melayu Pahang - Applicability - Arbitration Act 2005, s. 33(6) BANKRUPTCY Bankruptcy notice - Setting aside - Summary judgment - Notice issued more than six years after judgment without prior leave of court - Whether notice bad in law - Whether judgment creditor not 'a person who is for the time being entitled to enforce a final judgment' - Whether leave imperative and must be applied for - Whether bankruptcy notice ought to be set aside - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 46 r. 2(a) - Bankruptcy Act 1967, proviso to s. 3(1) CIVIL PROCEDURE Leave - Leave to issue bankruptcy notice - Issuance of notice six years after judgment - Whether must obtain leave of court - Whether judgment creditor not 'a person who is for the time being entitled to enforce a final judgment' - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 46 r. 2(a) - Bankruptcy Act 1967, proviso to s. 3(1) Pleadings - Issue not pleaded - Whether parties bound by their pleadings - Whether Industrial Court could depart from pleadings - Factual basis for finding of unjust dismissal - Whether pleaded in statement of case Stay of proceedings - Will - Administration of estate - Beneficiaries of will obtained order that trust for sale and conversion of properties in residuary estate be terminated and transferred in specie to beneficiaries instead of being sold - Trustee sought to obtain stay of order and applied for forensic handwriting to be conducted to determine genuineness of will - Whether there was inordinate delay on trustee's part in applying for stay of proceedings - Whether trustee sought to obtain stay order under two separate applications contradictory to each other - "approbating and reprobating" - Whether beneficiaries suffered extreme prejudice by trustee's reluctance to distribute assets - Balance of justice - Whether lay in favour of beneficiaries - Whether unjust, oppressive and unfair to beneficiaries if distribution withheld COMPANY LAW Director - Fiduciary duties - Request for inspection of company's accounts - Whether right to inspect connected to discharge of director's duties - Whether director obliged to provide reason for request - Director never took part in management of company - Whether still entitled to right to inspect - Whether request proven to be for ulterior or improper purpose - Companies Act 1965, s. 167(6) Lifting of corporate veil - Liability of directors - Whether directors could be held personally liable for debts of company - Whether directors were knowingly parties to fraudulent trading of company - Whether business had been carried out with intent to defraud - Whether company was not in position to pay creditors when debts fall due - Companies Act 1965, s. 304(1) Winding up - Petition - Just and equitable grounds - Restructuring of company to comply with statutory requirements - Majority of shares vested in Bumiputeras - Whether restructuring agreement intended to circumvent statute and illegal - Petitioner participated and benefited from illegal arrangement - Whether just and equitable for company to be wound up - Registration of Engineers Act 1967, ss. 7A(3), 10(4) CONTRACT Agreement - Land - Parties entered into separate agreements in respect of land - No consideration, compensation or payment or rental to be paid to landowners for use and occupation of land - Agreement made without consideration - Whether valid - Whether dealings affecting lands legal - Whether ought to be set aside - Sabah Land Ordinance, s. 17(1) Specific performance - Claim for - Sale and purchase of property - Tenancy agreement containing option to purchase clause - Option to purchase duly exercised before expiry date - Matters relating to sale and purchase agreement transacted outside option period - Whether purchase of property must be concluded within option period notwithstanding absence of objection by other party to option notice - Whether there was a miscarriage of justice CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Appeal - Appeal to Federal Court - Appeal against decision of Court of Appeal hearing a criminal appeal from High Court - Whether decision of High Court not a decision in exercise of its original, appellate or revisionary jurisdiction - Whether Court of Appeal had no jurisdiction to hear appeal - Whether consequently not a competent appeal before the Federal Court - Courts of Judicature Act 1964 ss. 30, 50, 84 - Federal Constitution art. 128 - Rules of the Federal Court 1995 rr. 30-39 EVIDENCE Standard of proof - Statutory claim - Claim under s. 304(1) of Companies Act 1965 - Whether term 'if it appears' indicates lower degree of proof - Whether proof on balance of probabilities sufficient JURISDICTION High Court - Referral from subordinate court - Referral of question of law as to the effect of the provision of the Federal Constitution - Duty, power and jurisdiction of High Court Judge - Whether could decide on constitutionality of matter thus transmitted - Whether could enlarge jurisdiction as given by statutes - Whether could only stay proceeding, state question of law that had arisen in the form of a special case and transmit same to Federal Court - Courts of Judicature Act 1964 ss. 30, 50, 84 - Federal Constitution art. 128 - Rules of the Federal Court 1995 rr. 30-39 LABOUR LAW Employment - Dismissal - Termination from employment - Employee's post as lecturer at university subjected to employee obtaining PhD - Failure to obtain PhD - Whether university entitled to terminate employee - Industrial Court held that employee was dismissed without just cause or excuse - Whether findings of Industrial Court based on unpleaded issue - Whether Industrial Court ought not to consider issue not raised in pleadings - Whether award of Industrial Court ought to be quashed - Industrial Relations Act 1967, s. 20(1) - Industrial Court Rules, r. 9(3) LAND LAW Title - Sale and purchase - Indefeasibility of title - Developer terminated sale and purchase agreement with defendants - Developer transferred strata title of apartment to plaintiffs after defendants obtained summary judgment for possession of apartment - Maxim nemo dat quod non habet - Whether applicable - Whether developer still had legal interest in apartment at point of transfer - Whether instrument of transfer executed by developer void - Whether plaintiffs registered proprietors of apartment - Whether plaintiffs' title or interest defeasible by virtue of s. 340(2)(b) of National Land Code Transfer - Validity - Parties entered into separate agreements in respect of land - Special conditions in documents of title explicitly stated that transfer and sublease of land title is prohibited unless written permission is first obtained - Failure to obtain written permission - Whether non-compliance with special conditions rendered transfer and sublease void - Contracts Act 1950, ss. 24, 26 STATUTORY INTERPRETATION Construction of statutes - Literal approach - Intention of Legislature - Sections 30 & 84 Courts of Judicature Act 1964 - Reference from subordinate court to High Court on question of law as to the effect of the provision of the Federal Constitution - Jurisdiction and power to decide on constitutionality of matter under reference - Whether with the High Court - Whether exclusively vested with the Federal Court - Courts of Judicature Act 1964 ss. 30, 50, 84 - Federal Constitution art. 128 - Rules of the Federal Court 1995 rr. 30-39 SUCCESSION Will - Administration of estate - Beneficiaries of will obtained order that trust for sale and conversion of properties in residuary estate be terminated and transferred in specie to beneficiaries instead of being sold - Trustee sought to obtain stay of order and applied for forensic handwriting to be conducted to determine genuineness of will - Whether there was inordinate delay on trustee's part in applying for stay of proceedings - Whether trustee sought to obtain stay order under two separate applications contradictory to each other - "approbating and reprobating" - Whether beneficiaries suffered extreme prejudice by trustee's reluctance to distribute assets - Balance of justice - Whether lay in favour of beneficiaries - Whether unjust, oppressive and unfair to beneficiaries if distribution withheld TRUSTS Trustee - Will - Administration of justice - Beneficiaries of will obtained order that trust for sale and conversion of properties in residuary estate be terminated and transferred in specie to beneficiaries instead of being sold - Trustee sought to obtain stay of order and applied for forensic handwriting to be conducted to determine genuineness of will - Whether there was inordinate delay on trustee's part in applying for stay of proceedings - Whether trustee sought to obtain stay order under two separate applications contradictory to each other - "approbating and reprobating" - Whether beneficiaries suffered extreme prejudice by trustee's reluctance to distribute assets - Balance of justice - Whether lay in favour of beneficiaries - Whether unjust, oppressive and unfair to beneficiaries if distribution withheld |
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