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FARIDA ARIANI FADZIL lwn. PP [2016] 2 CLJ 626 PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Hukuman - Pecah amanah - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman - Tertuduh dijatuhkan hukuman penjara 30 bulan dan denda RM3,000 - Prinsip penghukuman - Kepentingan awam - Sama ada hukuman yang dijatuhkan memadai - Kanun Keseksaan, s. 409 KETERANGAN: Saksi - Kredibiliti - Pecah amanah - Penjawat awam - Tertuduh diamanah membayar wang bantuan kepada murid-murid - Saksi-saksi memberi keterangan bahawa murid-murid mendakwa tidak menerima wang bantuan - Sama ada saksi-saksi boleh dipercayai - Sama ada keterangan saksi-saksi keterangan dengar cakap - Sama ada keterangan saksi-saksi menyokong satu sama lain - Kanun Keseksaan, s. 409 UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH: Kanun Keseksaan, s. 409 - Pecah amanah - Penjawat awam - Tertuduh diamanah membayar wang bantuan kepada murid-murid - Ibu bapa murid-murid mendakwa tidak menerima wang bantuan - Sama ada elemen-elemen kesalahan berjaya dibuktikan - Sama ada tertuduh seorang penjawat awam - Sama ada tertuduh diamanahkan wang bantuan dalam kapasiti sebagai seorang penjawat awam - Sama ada tertuduh menggunakan wang bantuan secara curang untuk kegunaan diri sendiri |
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CLJ 2016 Volume 2 (Part 4) FEDERAL COURT Bar Malaysia v. Index Continent Sdn Bhd COURT OF APPEAL Aneka Melor Sdn Bhd v. Seri Sabco (M) Sdn Bhd & Another Appeal Tay Chong Yew & Anor v. Onn Kim Muah Woolley Development Sdn Bhd v. Tiara Contours Construction Sdn Bhd HIGH COURT Farida Ariani Fadzil lwn. PP Malarkodi Subramaniam lwn. AmGeneral Insurance Bhd Micheal Teo Yu Keng & Ors v. Miri City Council & Ors Ooi Chee Tiong v. PP Rashid Asari & Co v. Dynac Sdn Bhd Seah Eng Toh Daniel & Anor v. Kingsley Khoo Hoi Leng & Ors Target Edge Sdn Bhd v. Zet Enterprise Sdn Bhd & Anor SUBJECT INDEX ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Judicial review - Removal of car park - Decision of City Council to remove car park - Allegation that removal would severely affect applicants' business - Application for judicial review against decision of city council - Whether applicants had any proprietary rights over car park - Whether applicants suffered losses or damages arising from removal of car park - Whether there was invasion or threatened invasion of applicants' legal rights - Whether applicants' constitutional rights would be infringed CIVIL PROCEDURE Injunction - Locus standi - Private limited company - Infringement of s. 37 of Legal Profession Act 1976 ('LPA') - Whether Bar Council had locus standi to commence action and apply for injunction - Whether within sole purview of Attorney General - Powers of Bar Council - Whether conferred by ss. 41 & 42 to protect and assist public on matters ancillary or incidental to law - Whether Bar Council empowered to bring civil action against parties acting in contravention of LPA - Federal Constitution, art. 145(3) Parties - Addition of co-defendant - Sale and purchase of shares - Solicitor appointed as stakeholder - Earnest money with solicitor to be refunded if purchaser aborted purchase of shares - Purchaser no longer interested in transaction and demanded for refund - Vendor instructed solicitor to continue holding earnest money - Purchaser commenced legal proceedings against solicitor for release of earnest money and proposed to add vendor as co-defendant - Whether proposed co-defendant had equal right and/or interest in earnest money - Rules of Court 2012, O. 15 r. 16(2) COMPANY LAW Directors - Removal - Minority shareholders - Claim that company was formed as quasi-partnership - Whether minority shareholders ought not to be removed as directors - Whether minority shareholders contributed in capital injection - Whether registered as majority-minority equity structure to enjoy tax benefits - Whether an arrangement to deceive authorities - Whether against public policy Oppression - Minority shareholders - Resolutions at extraordinary general meeting to increase authorised capital and paid-up capital - Whether meant to dilute minority shareholders' interest - Whether an attempt to force sellout at unfair price - Whether minority shareholders knew about increase in authorised and paid-up capital - Whether minority shareholders oppressed - Companies Act 1965, s. 181 CONTRACT Agreement - Tenancy agreement - Extension of tenancy - Tenancy agreement terminated due to tenant's failure to give notice to extend tenancy - Tenant claimed that parties had orally agreed to renew tenancy before expiry of tenancy agreement - Allegation that tenant met with landlord's representative - Whether claim substantiated - Whether tenant could claim for specific performance of tenancy agreement - Whether notice of termination by landlord valid Building contract - Payment - Progress claims for works done - Subcontract - Main contractor to pay subcontractor after payments released by paymaster - Paymaster released payments but main contractor failed to make payments to subcontractor - Subcontractor filed claim ten years after accrual of cause of action - Whether action was statute-barred - Whether subcontractor entitled to receive progress claims - Limitation Act 1953, s. 6(1) Privity - Sale and purchase agreement ('SPA') - Execution of SPA of subject property in satisfaction of debt due to purchaser by vendor - Subject property subsequently transferred to third party - Whether third party privy to SPA - Whether third party successor-in-title to vendor - Whether SPA enforceable against third party CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Bail - Unbailable offence - Granting of - Security offences - Application by accused - Discretion of court to grant bail - Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012, s. 13 - Whether applicant fell within category of persons stated under s. 13(2) - Whether Public Prosecutor applied for accused to be attached with electronic monitoring device - Whether a pre-requisite - Whether applicant sick and infirm - Whether application ought to be allowed - Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007, s. 26J EQUITY Equitable interest - Tenancy - Tenanted premises upgraded by tenant - Claim for expenses and costs incurred - Whether tenant had any equitable rights over premise - Whether tenant observed and complied with all by-laws, rules and regulations of competent authority - Whether rule of equity applied - Whether tenant came to court with clean hands EVIDENCE Adverse inference - Failure to call material witness - Tenancy agreement - Extension - Tenancy agreement terminated due to tenant's failure to give notice to extend tenancy - Allegation that tenant met landlord's representative and parties orally agreed to renew tenancy before expiry of tenancy agreement - Alleged representative of landlord not called to court - Whether burden of proof laid on tenant's shoulders - Whether adverse inference ought to be invoked for non-calling of material witness - Evidence Act 1950, ss. 101 & 114(g) Documentary evidence - Contract - Claim for payment under subcontract - Progress claims for works done by subcontractor against main contractor - Whether relevant documents adduced to support progress claims - Burden of proving items of progress claim FAMILY LAW Divorce - Maintenance - Reasonable sum - Husband ordered to pay RM4,000 per month to wife - Appeal against decision of High Court - Whether husband gainfully employed - Whether wife had means to support herself - Whether award for maintenance to be varied Matrimonial assets - Division - Properties - Contribution by spouse - Whether a factor to be considered - Whether properties acquired by first appellant before marriage - Whether inherited - Whether acquired by way of gift - Whether constitutes matrimonial assets - Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976, s. 76 Matrimonial assets - Division - Shares - Whether money transaction involved in purchase of shares - Whether acquired by way of gift - Whether constitutes matrimonial assets LEGAL PROFESSION Malaysian Bar - Object and powers of Bar Council - Company provided service of connecting general public to firms for legal assistance - Whether company's acts contravened provisions of Legal Profession Act 1976 - Whether infringement of s. 37 of Legal Profession Act 1976 within sole purview of Attorney General - Whether Bar Council had locus standi to commence action and apply for injunction - Legal Profession Act 1976, ss. 41, 42 & 57 - Federal Constitution, art. 145(3) LIMITATION Commencement of action - Judicial review - Decision of City Council to remove car park - Allegation that removal would severely affect applicants' business - Whether application for judicial review filed within time - When time starts to run - Whether 'when the grounds of application first arose' or 'when the decision is first communicated' - Whether announcement in newspapers admissible evidence - Rules of Court 2012 ('ROC'), O. 53 r. 3(6) Contract - Accrual of cause of action - Breach of contract - Progress claims for works done - Claim for payment under subcontract - Subcontractor filed claim ten years after accrual of cause of action - Whether action was statute-barred - Limitation Act 1953, s. 6(1) STATUTORY INTERPRETATION Aids to construction - Hansard - Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012, s. 13 - Whether provision to be read in its ordinary and literal meaning - Whether there was ambiguity or obscurity in interpreting provision - Whether reference ought to be made to Hansard Construction - Power given by Act - Legal Profession Act 1976 ('LPA') - Interpretation of - Whether ss. 37, 41, 42 & 57 should be given purposive interpretation - Whether there was failure to appreciate extent of objectives and purpose of LPA and Bar Council's roles and functions - Whether Bar Council empowered to bring civil action against parties acting in contravention of LPA TRUSTS Land - Creation of trust - Constructive trust - Allegation that third party held property on trust for purchaser - Whether trust property in existence when trust supposed to have arisen - Whether third party acquired ownership of trust property - Whether third party acted unconscionably to deprive purchaser of trust property - Whether constructive trust arose INDEKS PERKARA KETERANGAN Saksi - Kredibiliti - Pecah amanah - Penjawat awam - Tertuduh diamanah membayar wang bantuan kepada murid-murid - Saksi-saksi memberi keterangan bahawa murid-murid mendakwa tidak menerima wang bantuan - Sama ada saksi-saksi boleh dipercayai - Sama ada keterangan saksi-saksi keterangan dengar cakap - Sama ada keterangan saksi-saksi menyokong satu sama lain - Kanun Keseksaan, s. 409 PROSEDUR JENAYAH Hukuman - Pecah amanah - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman - Tertuduh dijatuhkan hukuman penjara 30 bulan dan denda RM3,000 - Prinsip penghukuman - Kepentingan awam - Sama ada hukuman yang dijatuhkan memadai - Kanun Keseksaan, s. 409 PROSEDUR SIVIL Saman pemula - Perintah deklarasi - Permohonan - Permohonan deklarasi polisi insurans tidak sah - Plaintif mengemukakan saman pemula berasingan daripada tuntutan asal bagi mendapatkan perintah deklarasi - Sama ada Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen ('HMS') mempunyai bidang kuasa mengeluarkan perintah deklarasi - Sama ada HMS mengambil kira doktrin stare decisis - Sama ada HMS mempunyai kuasa memanggil semula saksi untuk pemeriksaan balas UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH Kanun Keseksaan, s. 409 - Pecah amanah - Penjawat awam - Tertuduh diamanah membayar wang bantuan kepada murid-murid - Ibu bapa murid-murid mendakwa tidak menerima wang bantuan - Sama ada elemen-elemen kesalahan berjaya dibuktikan - Sama ada tertuduh seorang penjawat awam - Sama ada tertuduh diamanahkan wang bantuan dalam kapasiti sebagai seorang penjawat awam - Sama ada tertuduh menggunakan wang bantuan secara curang untuk kegunaan diri sendiri |
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