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Issue #2/2020 02 January 2020

New This Week Case(s) of the Week ANG GAME HONG & ANOR v. TEE KIM TIAM & ORS [2020] 1 CLJ 141 PATRICK HO CHANG v. PERTUBUHAN KESELAMATAN SOSIAL [2020] 1 CLJ 284 JUDICIAL QUOTES  Latest Cases Legal Network Series CLJ 2020 Volume 1 (Part 2) Articles LNS Article(s) Legislation Highlights Principal Acts Amending Acts PU(A) PU(B) Legislation Alert

ANG GAME HONG & ANOR v. TEE KIM TIAM & ORS [2020] 1 CLJ 141
FEDERAL COURT, PUTRAJAYA
AHMAD MAAROP PCA; ZAHARAH IBRAHIM CJ (MALAYA); AZIAH ALI FCJ; ALIZATUL KHAIR OSMAN FCJ; ROHANA YUSUF FCJ
[CIVIL APPEAL NO: 01(f)-41-09-2017(B)]
15 OCTOBER 2019

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Jurisdiction - Concurrent jurisdiction - Power of High Court - Dispute over ownership of Land - High Court's decision to allow judgment in default and recorded consent judgment between parties which was set aside by another High Court - Whether final order of High Court null and void due to illegalities - Whether order made in breach of natural justice - Whether High Court has power to set aside order of court of concurrent jurisdiction

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PATRICK HO CHANG v. PERTUBUHAN KESELAMATAN SOSIAL [2020] 1 CLJ 284
HIGH COURT MALAYA, SHAH ALAM
WONG KIAN KHEONG J
[ORIGINATING SUMMONS NO: BA-24NCvC-1228-10-2018]
04 OCTOBER 2019

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Parties - Joinder - Application to join parties as co-respondents - Applicant's application for invalidity pension dismissed by Medical Board - Appellate Medical Board dismissed applicant's appeal against Medical Board's decision - Applicant appealed against decision of Appellate Medical Board to High Court - Application to join Doctors who were members of Appellate Medical Board as co-respondents - Whether Doctors personally liable to pay invalidity pension to applicant - Whether presence of Doctors necessary to ensure matters in dispute may be effectually and completely determined - Whether court should exercise discretion to join Doctors as co-respondents - Rules of Court 2012, O. 15 r. 6(2)(b)(i) - Employee's' Social Security Act 1969, s. 59A

WORDS & PHRASES: 'Substantial questions of law' - Appeal against decision of Appellate Medical Board - Applicant's application for invalidity pension dismissed by Medical Board - Appellate Medical Board dismissed applicant's appeal against Medical Board's decision - Applicant appealed against decision of Appellate Medical Board to High Court - Whether applicant could appeal to High Court - Whether there were 'substantial questions of law' warranting appeal - What constitutes 'substantial questions of law' - Employee's' Social Security Act 1969, s. 91(1) & (2)

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From experience, there are generally three types of witnesses at a trial. The first two are clear cut. They are the truthful and untruthful witnesses. The third type of witness can sometimes provide some difficulty to the trial judge. This is the truthful but mistaken witness. In other words, this is a witness who is telling the truth as he perceives it but he may be mistaken as to what he saw or heard. Acuity of hearing or observation may differ among witnesses. So his credibility, in one sense, is not in doubt but the accuracy of his evidence is although some might say a witness is not credible if he is mistaken in his testimony. – per Harminder Singh Dhaliwal JCA in PP v. Hassan Jafarpour [2019] 9 CLJ 216

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Legal Network Series

[2018] 1 LNS 155	LEE CHOW YEE lwn. PP PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap hukuman - Rayuan oleh pendakwaan - Rayuan terhadap hukuman penjara 2 tahun bagi kesalahan di bawah s. 8 Akta 1971 dan 4 tahun bagi kesalahan di bawah s. 8(a) Akta 1960 - Sama ada hukuman berbentuk deteran diperlukan - Sama ada hukuman yang dijatuhkan memadai Bagi pihak perayu - Perayu Hadir Sendiri Bagi pihak responden - Nur Nisla Abd Latif, Timbalan Pendakwa Raya; Pejabat Penasihat Undang-Undang Negeri Perlis
[2018] 1 LNS 175	THANAKORN SINSANOI v. PP UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH: Dadah berbahaya - Pengedaran - Pengetahuan - Dadah dijumpai di dalam beg galas yang dibawa tertuduh - Tertuduh tidak mengambil sebarang usaha untuk memeriksa beg galas - Tertuduh mencadangkan untuk menolak bungkusan - Sama ada tertuduh mempunyai pengetahuan berkenaan dadah - Sama ada anggapan di bawah s. 37(d) Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 telah dipatahkan PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Pembelaan - Pembawa tidak bersalah - Dadah dijumpai di dalam beg berisi bungkusan kain sari - Tertuduh mendakwa begnya dikemaskan oleh orang lain - Watak yang dinamakan tertuduh tidak disebut kepada perakam percakapan beramaran - Sama ada watak yang dinamakan tertuduh adalah rekaan semata-mata - Sama ada pembelaan tertuduh wajar dipercayai Bagi pihak perayu - K Viknesvaran; T/n Viknes Ratna & Co Bagi pihak responden - Nurshafini Mustafha, Timbalan Pendakwa Raya
[2018] 1 LNS 547	SMALL MEDIUM ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT BANK MALAYSIA BERHAD v. KLINIK PAKAR WANITA DR NORA SDN BHD & ORS CIVIL PROCEDURE: Summary judgment - Banking - Triable issues - Default in repayment of loan facility - Allegation that bank did not furnish monthly statement of account - Whether plaintiff has complied with O. 14 r. 2 of Rules of Court 2012 - Whether bank entitled to charge compound interest - Whether issuance of strata title has relevance to indebtedness - Whether there was any error in respect of statement of account - Whether there were triable issues For the plaintiff - R Subashini Ramakrishnan (also MOB defendant's solicitor); M/s Ganesan & Irmohizam For the defendants - Prakash Lachimanan; M/s Krish Maniam & Co
[2018] 1 LNS 552	AHMAD SOPHIAN ZUBIR & ORS v. GREEN HILL DEVELOPMENT SDN BHD & ANOR CIVIL PROCEDURE: Striking out - Action - Absence of cause of action - Action by purchasers against local council - Claim premised on allegation that local council failed to ensure developer adhered to terms and conditions of development approval - Sale and purchase agreement was only entered by developer - Whether there was legal relationship between purchasers and local council - Whether there was any proximity between purchasers and local council - Whether damage was reasonably foreseeable For the appellant - Zairus Affendi; M/s Zairus & Dora For the respondant - Zulfahami Hamar (Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam); M/s Ana Shahrana Annuar & Co
[2018] 1 LNS 558	MNE SOLUTIONS (M) SDN BHD v. MEDIVEST SDN BHD; ADVANCE PACT SDN BHD (THIRD PARTY) CONTRACT: Oral agreement - Existence - Maintenance services - Whether agreement for maintenance services existing between plaintiff and defendant - Whether plaintiff was able to prove existence of oral agreement - Whether plaintiff could enforce any claim or rights in relation to maintenance agreement that was entered between defendant with third party EVIDENCE: Adverse inference - Omission to call witness - Witness merely intended to corroborate evidence of another witness - Whether there was withholding or suppressing of evidence - Whether adverse inference could be invoked - Evidence Act 1950, s. 114(g) For the plaintiff - Priya Sukirthanandan; M/s Priya & Associates For the defendant - Natalia Isra Nasaruddin; M/s Zul Rafique & Partners For the third party - Izzat Othman; M/s Azzat & Izzat

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CLJ 2020 Volume 1 (Part 2)

One High Court cannot set aside a final order regularly obtained from another High Court of concurrent jurisdiction. Nonetheless, where such an order is null and void because of illegality or lack of jurisdiction, as for instance where the order was made in breach of natural justice, it can be set aside ex debito justitiae in exercise of the court’s inherent jurisdiction.
Ang Game Hong & Anor v. Tee Kim Tiam & Ors [2020] 1 CLJ 141 [FC]

• SUBJECT
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The Controller of Housing has no power under the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 or Housing Development (Control and Licencing) Regulations 1989 to modify the statutory contract of sale entered into by house buyers under the Act, and certainly cannot extend the statutory completion period of 36 months prescribed under the contract.
Ang Ming Lee & Ors v. Menteri Kesejahteraan Bandar, Perumahan Dan Kerajaan Tempatan & Anor And Other Appeals [2020] 1 CLJ 162 [FC]

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The Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 or CIPAA should not be construed as having a retrospective operation. To do so would not only affect construction contracts that came before its enforcement but substantially impair substantive rights of contracting parties and their right to freedom to contract and regulate their business agreements. CIPAA in its entirety should have a prospective application.
Ireka Engineering & Construction Sdn Bhd v. PWC Corporation Sdn Bhd & Other Appeals [2020] 1 CLJ 193 [FC]

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An application by a chargee to auction a property or fix an auction date is merely a proceeding to enforce the order for sale of a charged property; that being so limitation under ss. 6(3) and 21(1) of the Limitation Act 1953 does not apply to bar such an application. 
RHB Bank Bhd v. Dato' Hj Muhammad Hamzah [2020] 1 CLJ 236 [CA]

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Any alteration or deletion to the statutory form under s. 8(1) of the Small Estate (Distribution) Act 1955 must be initialled by a Commissioner for Oaths pursuant to r. 13(2)(c) of the Commissioners for Oaths Rules 1993; failure to do so would render the instrument void.
Ismail Ghulam Hussain & Ors v. Nurul Shuhada Yaakub & Anor [2020] 1 CLJ 249 [CA]

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A plaintiff who has withdrawn a suit after having obtained interlocutory orders thereon and after leave to appeal to the appellate or apex court against such interlocutory orders has been granted to the defendant, will not only have to bear the costs for the withdrawal but suffer the setting aside of the interlocutory orders and possibly assessment of damages as well. 
Tony Pua Kiam Wee v. Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Tun Hj Abdul Razak [2020] 1 CLJ 260 [CA]

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• COUNSEL

In cases of disclosure of improper conduct under the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010, it is vital that the complaint is communicated to an ‘enforcement agency’ within the meaning of s. 2 of the Act. A regulatory body like the Malaysian Medical Council, while having disciplinary jurisdiction over its members, does not have any investigation and enforcement functions or powers and is thus not an enforcement agency. It follows that an application for certiorari and mandamus to declare the Council an enforcement agency and compel it to act as such under the Act is untenable and must necessarily fail. 
Dr Milton Lum Siew Wah v. Majlis Perubatan Malaysia [2020] 1 CLJ 270 [HC]

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• CORAM
• COUNSEL

A party aggrieved by a decision of the Appellate Medical Board constituted under the Employees’ Social Security Act 1969 can only appeal against the decision to the High Court if it involves a ‘substantial question of law’. An appeal may be said to bear a ‘substantial question of law’ if it concerns conflicting decisions of the High Court or the Court of Appeal for which there is as yet no judgment of the Federal Court, or an application of a legal principle which is not well settled, or an important question of law, or a difficult question of law, or a question of law which is amenable to reasonable doubt or a difference of opinion. The examples, of course, are not exhaustive.  
Patrick Ho Chang v. Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial [2020] 1 CLJ 284 [HC]

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LNS Article(s)

1. CONFLICT OF LAWS ON THE RIGHTS OF CHILD UNDER THE CHILD ACT WITH PREVENTIVE LAWS ^{[Read excerpt]}
   by Datuk Baljit Singh Sidhu*Abdul Rani Bin Kamarudin** [2020] 1 LNS(A) i

[2020] 1 LNS(A) i



MALAYSIA

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CONFLICT OF LAWS ON THE RIGHTS OF CHILD UNDER THE CHILD ACT WITH PREVENTIVE LAWS

by
Datuk Baljit Singh Sidhu*
Abdul Rani Bin Kamarudin**

Abstract

The principal Act governing the handling of the child in conflict with the law is the Child Act 2001 ("CA 2001") that came into force in August 2002. The CA 2001 consolidated three former Acts: the Juvenile Courts Act 1947; the Child Protection Act 1999; and the Women and Girls' Protection Act 1973 which also incorporated the Convention on the Rights of Children. The CA 2001 therefore updated and upgraded the rights of children including in matters where they are arrested, investigated or charged with an offence. The question then is whether the CA 2001 provides adequate protection to the child. Further, does the CA 2001 yield to other laws especially preventive laws such as the Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Act 1985 ("DD(SPM)A 1985 and Prevention of Crime Act 1959 ("POCA 1959")? This Article evaluates not only the weaknesses of the CA 2001 but also how these preventive laws erode the rights of the child under the CA 2001. By getting the whole picture, suggestions can be made on how these laws can be improvised jointly or severally to ensure they work harmoniously or coherently with one another to promote rather than erode the rights of the child.

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* LLB (Hons) (Lond), LLM (Malaya), DSLP (IIUM); Advocate & Solicitor (Malaya), Mediator; Adjunct Professor, University Sultan Zainal Abidin.

** LLB (Hons), MCL (IIU), PhD (University of Exeter), Advocate & Solicitor of High Court of Malaya (Non Practising); Associate Professor of Law, Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyah of Laws, International Islamic University, Malaysia.

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2. KONSEP FASAKH DAN PELAKSANAANNYA MENURUT UNDANG-UNDANG NEGERI SEMBILAN 2003 ^{[Read excerpt]}
   oleh Abdul Halim bin Zulkifli, Ph.D* [2020] 1 LNS(A) ii

[2020] 1 LNS(A) ii



MALAYSIA

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KONSEP FASAKH DAN PELAKSANAANNYA MENURUT UNDANG-UNDANG NEGERI SEMBILAN 2003

oleh
Abdul Halim bin Zulkifli Ph.D*

Abstrak

Artikel ini akan membincangkan tentang konsep fasakh menurut Islam yang merangkumi aspek definisi dari segi bahasa, istilah dan juga dalil keharusannya menurut syarak. Definisi fasakh menurut Islam dan alasan-alasan yang membolehkan fasakh dibincangkan menurut peruntukan Enakmen Undang-undang Keluarga Islam Negeri Sembilan 2003 di samping alasan yang telah diperuntukkan oleh enakmen negeri-negeri bagi membolehkan permohonan fasakh. Dalam masa yang sama, penulis juga akan menghurai beberapa kes fasakh yang telah diputuskan oleh Mahkamah Syariah di Malaysia yang telah meluluskan permohonan tersebut menurut peruntukan undang-undang yang berkuatkuasa ketika ini.

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*Pensyarah Kanan ATI, FSSK, UTM, Johor, Peguambela & Peguamcara/Peguam Syarie.

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