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Legal Network Series
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[2015] 1 LNS 1211
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NAZLAN HASHIM & ANOR v. MOHAMAD AKMAL MOHD RASHID
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CIVIL PROCEDURE: Appeal - Application for extension of time to file and serve notice of appeal - Delay close to a month - Litigants received solicitor's letter informing them of outcome of suit late due to miscommunication - Delay in giving instruction to solicitors as much time required to locate file in store - Mere allegation that appellant has meritorious appeal without further explanation in affidavit - Whether length of delay substantial - Whether delay justified - Whether there were sufficient materials to consider merits of appeal - Whether prejudice to respondent heavily outweighed that of appellants
CIVIL PROCEDURE: Affidavits - Capacity of deponent - Application for extension of time to file and serve notice of appeal - Affidavit affirmed by solicitors - Objection by opponents concerning capacity of a solicitor to affirm an affidavit - Whether solicitors impliedly authorised by their client to affirm affidavits on its behalf - Whether opponents could raise objection as to authority of a solicitor in affirming affidavit - Rules of Court 2012, O. 41
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[2015] 1 LNS 1227
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HAP SENG CREDIT SDN BHD v. MOHAMED A RALIM & ORS
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HIRE PURCHASE: Hire-purchase agreement - Validity of hire purchase transaction not subject to Hire Purchase Act 1967 ('HPA') - Goods on hire not listed in First Schedule to HPA - Hirer alleged that hire purchase agreement was a loan and money lending transaction and refused to make payment - Whether financier of a hire-purchase transaction should hold a finance company business license within meaning of Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 - Whether impugned hire-purchase transaction subjected to provisions of HPA or Contracts Act 1950 - Whether hire-purchase transactions which are subsisting outside legislative remit of HPA should be invalidated - Whether hire purchase transaction subjected to provisions of Moneylenders Act 1951
CONTRACT: Performance - Contract of hire purchase - Obligation of hirer - Hirer refused to make payment in accordance with terms of hire purchase agreement - Hirer claimed that he did not understand language of agreement - Absence of fraud and misrepresentation - Whether hirer was bound by terms of contract
CONTRACT: Interest - Imposition of late payment interest - Hire purchase agreement - Financier of hire-purchase agreement charged 2% interest as late payment charges as per terms of hire purchase agreement - Whether financier was contractually entitled to charge late payment interest
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[2015] 1 LNS 1229
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TERKEY RAKAWI v. MULTI LUCK DEVELOPMENT SDN BHD & OTHER CASE
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CONTRACT: Interpretation - Objective intention of contracting parties - Determining nature of an agreement - Sale and purchase agreement or joint venture development agreement - Existence of power of attorney and letter of guarantee - Content of power of attorney consistent with a joint venture development agreement - Whether court was entitled to take into account background of contract outside confines of formal agreement in construing nature of agreement entered by parties - Whether sale and purchase agreement was in reality a development agreement - Whether there could be a necessity for a power of attorney and letter of guarantee in genuine sale and purchase agreement
CONTRACT: Agreement - Validity - Sale and purchase agreement in nature of joint venture development agreement - Whether agreement was in contravention of s. 8 of Sarawak Land Code
CONTRACT: Termination - Damages - Termination without notice - Unilateral termination of agreement, revocation of power of attorney and lodgment of caveat by defendant - Failure to give proper notice specifying default before termination - Immediate filing of action in court by defendant seeking declaration to challenge validity of agreement entered - Whether plaintiff had been deprived of right to rectify any alleged breach or default - Whether plaintiff entitled to claim for loss
LAND LAW: Housing developer - Breach of - Statutory requirement under s. 8 of the Building Ordinance 1994 and Housing Developer (Control and Licensing) Ordinance 1993 - Commencement of work before obtaining housing developer's license - Whether housing developer in contravention of s. 8 of the Building Ordinance 1994 and Housing Developer Ordinance
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[2016] 1 LNS 204
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AFFIN BANK BERHAD lwn. BLUE VALLEY PLANTATION BHD & YANG LAIN; PYLON RANGE SDN BHD (PENCELAH)
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PROSEDUR SIVIL: Perintah persetujuan - Pembatalan - Pemohon memohon membatalkan penghakiman persetujuan - Dakwaan kemungkiran terma-terma penghakiman persetujuan - Pemohon telah menikmati faedah melalui sebahagian daripada penghakiman persetujuan - Pemohon berupaya mendapat keuntungan berganda jika penghakiman persetujuan dibatalkan - Sama ada pemohon boleh mengambil kesempatan dari satu bahagian dan menolak selebihnya terma-terma penghakiman persetujuan - Sama ada pembatalan perintah persetujuan adalah adil
UNDANG-UNDANG SYARIKAT: Penggulungan - Kebenaran untuk bertindak terhadap syarikat yang berada dibawah perintah penggulungan - Tindakan berasaskan kemungkiran penghakiman persetujuan yang telah dimasuki antara pemohon dan responden - Pemohon telah menikmati faedah daripada penghakiman persetujuan - Pemohon berupaya mendapat keuntungan berganda jika penghakiman persetujuan dibatalkan - Sama ada pemohon telah membuktikan kewujudan tuntutan prima facie terhadap responden - Sama ada pemohon wajar diberikan kebenaran untuk mengambil tindakan membatalkan penghakiman persetujuan - Akta Syarikat 1965, s. 226(3)
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[2016] 1 LNS 205
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MAZLAN AHMAD v. PP
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PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap hukuman - Pengakuan bersalah - Hukuman penjara 7 tahun dan 5 sebatan bagi kesalahan menyebabkan cedera parah dengan menggunakan parang - Mangsa mengalami kecederaan teruk - Hakim bicara hanya merujuk kepada memo berkenaan kecederaan yang dialami mangsa yang ditandatangani oleh doktor sebelum menjatuhkan hukuman tanpa rujukan kepada laporan perubatan - Sama ada hukuman yang telah dijatuhkan adalah berlebihan - Sama ada hakim bicara telah terkhilaf apabila merujuk kepada memo semata-mata sebelum menjatuhkan hukuman - Sama ada hakim bicara telah menggunakan prinsip penghukuman dengan betul apabila mengimbangi kepentingan awam dengan kepentingan tertuduh - Sama ada faktor pesalah pertama dan ketiadaan rekod kesalahan lampau merupakan faktor peringanan hukuman
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CLJ 2017 Volume 2 (Part 2)
FEDERAL COURT
Fakhrurrazi Hasan v. PP
Richard Malanjum CJ (Sabah & Sarawak), Abdull Hamid Embong, Suriyadi Halim Omar, Ahmad Maarop & Mohamed Apandi Ali FCJJ
(Criminal Law - Dangerous drugs - Trafficking in - Conduct of accused - Whether forming basis for inference of knowledge) [2017] 2 CLJ 125 [FC]
Olier Shekh Awoyal Shekh lwn. PP
Ahmad Maarop, Hasan Lah, Abu Samah Nordin, Azahar Mohamed, Zaharah Ibrahim HHMP
(Undang-undang Jenayah - Kanun Keseksaan, ss. 302 & 307 - Keterangan ikut keadaan - Sama ada Mahkamah Tinggi menggunakan beban pembuktian yang salah - Sama ada terdapat jurang luas dalam kes pendakwaan - Sama ada sabitan dan hukuman selamat) [2017] 2 CLJ 141 [FC]
COURT OF APPEAL
AXA Affin General Insurance Bhd v. ALW Car Workshop Sdn Bhd
Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Vernon Ong Lam Kiat, Abdul Rahman Sebli JJCA
(Insurance - Claims - Exaggerated claim - Whether tainted with fraud - Whether insurer's repudiation of liability valid) [2017] 2 CLJ 163 [CA]
Lua & Mansor v. Tan Ah Kim
Rohana Yusuf, Idrus Harun JJCA, Mary Lim J
(Civil Procedure - Judgments and orders - Taxation order for bill of costs - Whether made within time - Whether bill of costs should not be taxed) [2017] 2 CLJ 175 [CA]
Tenaga Nasional Bhd v. Unggul Tangkas Sdn Bhd & Anor And Other Appeals
Abang Iskandar, Zamani A Rahim, Zaleha Yusof JJCA
(Civil Procedure; Land Law - Acquisition of land - Compensation - Land reference proceedings - Procedure for intervention - Whether applicant an aggrieved party - Whether procedure to object against award complied with) [2017] 2 CLJ 185 [CA]
HIGH COURT
Ann Joo Steel Bhd v. Tenaga Nasional Bhd & Ors
Abdul Wahab Mohamed JC
(Land Law - Boundary - Determination of - Method of measurement - Whether High Court has jurisdiction to hear appeals against decision of Land Titles Appeal Board) [2017] 2 CLJ 199 [HC]
Bakti Dinamik Sdn Bhd v. Bauer (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (No 2)
Mohd Nazlan Ghazali JC
(Civil Procedure; Companies Act; Contract - Fortuna injunction - Injunction to restrain winding up petition - Whether notice of petition served in good faith - Whether there was privity of contract between parties) [2017] 2 CLJ 223 [HC]
PP v. Ajim Otoh
Mairin Idang JC
(Criminal Procedure - Bail - Granting of - Application for revision against grant of bail by Sessions Court Judge - Whether unbailable offence) [2017] 2 CLJ 240 [HC]
SUBJECT INDEX
CIVIL PROCEDURE
Injunction - Fortuna injunction - Injunction to restrain winding up petition - Presentation of winding up petition by third party arising from payment allegedly due - Whether winding up notice served in good faith - Whether Fortuna injunction ought to be granted - Companies Act 1965, s. 218
Bakti Dinamik Sdn Bhd v. Bauer (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (No 2)
(Mohd Nazlan Ghazali JC) [2017] 2 CLJ 223 [HC]
Intervention - Application for - Land reference proceedings - Procedure for intervention - Whether procedure for objection against award complied with - Whether application to intervene abuse of court process - Whether applicant had direct legal interest - Whether applicant an aggrieved party - Land Acquisition Act 1960, s. 45 - Rules of Court 2012, O. 15
Tenaga Nasional Bhd v. Unggul Tangkas Sdn Bhd & Anor And Other Appeals
(Abang Iskandar, Zamani A Rahim, Zaleha Yusof JJCA) [2017] 2 CLJ 185 [CA]
Judgments and orders - Taxation order - Taxation order for bill of costs - Claim for ancillary reliefs - Client refused to pay counsel certain percentage of value of properties or payments under relief ordered - Whether contingency fees - Client filed petition to tax bill of costs after two and half years from delivery - Whether taxation order made within time - Whether bill of costs premised on agreed fees and should not be taxed - Whether taxation order ultra vires s. 117(3) and in contravention of ss. 126 and 128 of Legal Profession Act 1976
Lua & Mansor v. Tan Ah Kim
(Rohana Yusuf, Idrus Harun, Mary Lim J) [2017] 2 CLJ 175 [CA]
COMPANIES ACT
Winding up - Petition - Notice - Presentation of winding up petition arising from payment allegedly due - Whether there was debt due - Whether notice served in good faith - Whether suitable procedure to claim for payment - Companies Act 1965, s. 218
Bakti Dinamik Sdn Bhd v. Bauer (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (No 2)
(Mohd Nazlan Ghazali JC) [2017] 2 CLJ 223 [HC]
CONTRACT
Privity - Building contract - Presentation of winding up petition by sub-contractor against employer of main contractor - Petition based on payment due - Whether there was contractual relationship between parties - Whether there was privity of contract between parties - Whether debt could arise independently of contract
Bakti Dinamik Sdn Bhd v. Bauer (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (No 2)
(Mohd Nazlan Ghazali JC) [2017] 2 CLJ 223 [HC]
CRIMINAL LAW
Dangerous drugs - Trafficking in cannabis - Proscribed drugs in bag carried by accused - Knowledge - Inference of knowledge - Conduct of accused - Whether forming basis for inference of knowledge - No finding made whether conduct relied on by prosecution was proven or had nexus with drugs - Whether conviction for trafficking unsustainable - Whether only guilty of possession - Sentence - Consideration of Parlan Dadeh v. PP
Fakhrurrazi Hasan v. PP
(Richard Malanjum CJ (Sabah & Sarawak), Abdull Hamid Embong, Suriyadi Halim Omar, Ahmad Maarop & Mohamed Apandi Ali FCJJ) [2017] 2 CLJ 125 [FC]
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Bail - Granting of - Application for revision against grant of bail by Sessions Court Judge - Accused charged under s. 12(2) of Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 ('DDA') punishable under s. 39A(2)(r) of DDA - Whether unbailable offence - Whether s. 41B of DDA prevailed over s. 388(1) of Criminal Procedure Code - Whether grant of bail should be set aside
PP v. Ajim Otoh
(Mairin Idang JC) [2017] 2 CLJ 240 [HC]
INSURANCE
Claims - Exaggerated claim - Repudiation of liability by insurer - Whether insured submitted fraudulent claim - Whether damages claimed grossly exaggerated - Whether exaggerated claim tainted with fraud - Whether insurer's repudiation of liability valid
AXA Affin General Insurance Bhd v. ALW Car Workshop Sdn Bhd
(Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Vernon Ong Lam Kiat, Abdul Rahman Sebli JJCA) [2017] 2 CLJ 163 [CA]
LAND LAW
Acquisition of land - Compensation - Objection against award - Failure to lodge objection in Form N of Land Acquisition Act 1960 - Whether procedure to object against award complied with - Whether beneficiary of acquired land could intervene in land reference proceedings - Land Acquisition Act 1960, s. 3(1)(a)
Tenaga Nasional Bhd v. Unggul Tangkas Sdn Bhd & Anor And Other Appeals
(Abang Iskandar, Zamani A Rahim, Zaleha Yusof JJCA) [2017] 2 CLJ 185 [CA]
Boundary - Determination of - Method of measurement - Deputy Director of Titles decided that boundary should be measured by Traverse Mark Method ('first decision') - Appeal to High Court against first decision - High Court ordered matter to be remitted to District Commissioner for Land Titles for determination of appropriate method - Deputy Director of Land Titles decided that boundaries land should be measured by High Water Mark Method ('second decision') - Whether second decision null and void - Whether High Court has jurisdiction to hear appeals against decision of Land Titles Appeal Board - Whether second decision superseded first decision
Ann Joo Steel Bhd v. Tenaga Nasional Bhd & Ors
(Abdul Wahab Mohamed JC) [2017] 2 CLJ 199 [HC]
INDEKS PERKARA
UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH
Kesalahan cubaan membunuh - Kanun Keseksaan, s. 307 - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman - Kegagalan memanggil doktor yang merawat mangsa - Kegagalan mengemukakan laporan perubatan - Sama ada terdapat jurang luas dalam kes pendakwaan - Kegagalan Mahkamah Tinggi mengendalikan penilaian maksimum ke atas keterangan mangsa - Sama ada mengakibatkan salah laksana keadilan - Sama ada sabitan selamat - Kanun Tatacara Jenayah, s. 182A
Olier Shekh Awoyal Shekh lwn. PP
(Ahmad Maarop, Hasan Lah, Abu Samah Nordin, Azahar Mohamed, Zaharah Ibrahim HHMP) [2017] 2 CLJ 141 [FC]
Membunuh - Kanun Keseksaan, s. 302 - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman - Keterangan ikut keadaan - Sama ada memadai untuk mensabitkan perayu - Kewujudan profil DNA di tempat kejadian - Sama ada membawa satu kesimpulan yang tidak boleh disangkal bahawa perayu yang membunuh mangsa-mangsa - Sama ada Mahkamah Tinggi tersalah arah dalam menggunakan beban pembuktian yang salah - Sama ada sabitan dan hukuman ke atas perayu selamat - Kanun Tatacara Jenayah, s. 182A
Olier Shekh Awoyal Shekh lwn. PP
(Ahmad Maarop, Hasan Lah, Abu Samah Nordin, Azahar Mohamed, Zaharah Ibrahim HHMP) [2017] 2 CLJ 141 [FC]
Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman - Pertuduhan membunuh dan cubaan membunuh di bawah ss. 302 dan 307 Kanun Keseksaan - Keterangan ikut keadaan - Sama ada Mahkamah Tinggi gagal menilai keterangan perayu secara keseluruhan - Sama ada beban pembuktian yang diguna pakai oleh Mahkamah Tinggi betul dalam mensabitkan perayu - Sama ada sabitan dan hukuman selamat - Kanun Tatacara Jenayah, s. 182A
Olier Shekh Awoyal Shekh lwn. PP
(Ahmad Maarop, Hasan Lah, Abu Samah Nordin, Azahar Mohamed, Zaharah Ibrahim HHMP) [2017] 2 CLJ 141 [FC]
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