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Issue #36/2020 27 August 2020

New This Week Case(s) of the Week TEBIN MOSTAPA v. HULBA-DANYAL BALIA & ANOR [2020] 7 CLJ 561 WANG CHOON YIN lwn. DATO' SERI HJ MUSTAFAR HJ ALI PENGERUSI LEMBAGA TATATERTIB KUMPULAN SOKONGAN (NO. 1) JABATAN IMIGRESEN MALAYSIA & YANG LAIN [2020] 7 CLJ 621 LOH TINA & ORS v. KEMUNING SETIA SDN BHD & ORS AND ANOTHER APPEAL [2020] 7 CLJ 720 JUDICIAL QUOTES  Appeal Updates Appeal Updates Latest Cases Legal Network Series CLJ 2020 Volume 7 (Part 5) CLJ 2020 Volume 7 (Part 6) Articles LNS Article(s) Legislation Highlights Principal Acts Amending Acts PU(A) PU(B) Legislation Alert

TEBIN MOSTAPA v. HULBA-DANYAL BALIA & ANOR [2020] 7 CLJ 561
FEDERAL COURT, PUTRAJAYA
TENGKU MAIMUN TUAN MAT CJ; ROHANA YUSUF PCA; AZAHAR MOHAMED CJ (MALAYA);
NALLINI PATHMANATHAN FCJ; VERNON ONG LAM KIAT FCJ
[CIVIL APPEAL NO: 02(f)-23-04-2018 (Q)]
03 JULY 2020

STATUTORY INTERPRETATION: Construction of statutes - Rules of statutory interpretation - Section 177 of Land Code (Sarawak)(Cap 81) - Removal of caveat - Legislative intent - Whether meriting purposive and harmonious interpretation - Registered proprietor leaving estate with landed property - Administrator thereof - Whether deemed 'registered proprietor' of property - Whether having locus standi to remove caveat against property - Land Code (Sarawak)(Cap 81), ss. 2, 113, 115, 177 & 218 - Administration of Estates Ordinance (Sarawak)(Cap 80), ss. 4, 15 & 17 - Civil Law Act 1956, s. 8(1)

STATUTORY INTERPRETATION: Construction of statutes - Section 177 of Land Code (Sarawak)(Cap 81) - Removal of caveat - Legislative intent - Purposive and harmonious interpretation - Whether to be read with other provisions of Land Code - Whether to be also read with provisions of Administration of Estates Ordinance (Sarawak)(Cap 80) and Civil Law Act 1956

LAND LAW: Caveat - Removal - Land Code (Sarawak)(Cap 81), s. 177 - Locus standi - Administrator of estate - Land part of deceased's estate - Agreement by deceased to sell land - Caveat lodged by purported purchaser - Whether administrator of estate had locus standi to remove caveat - Land Code (Sarawak)(Cap 81), ss. 2, 113, 115, 177 & 218 - Administration of Estates Ordinance (Sarawak)(Cap 80), ss. 4, 15 & 17 - Civil Law Act 1956 s. 8(1)

WORDS & PHRASES: 'Representative' - 'registered proprietor' - Sections 2 & 177 of Land Code (Sarawak)(Cap 81) - Meaning and import - Whether to include administrator of estate

WORDS & PHRASES: 'Administrators' - 'vest' - Section 218 of Land Code (Sarawak)(Cap 81) and s. 15 of Administration of Estates Ordinance (Sarawak) (Cap 80) - Meaning and import - Administrator of estate - Whether vested with property under estate once appointed under letters of administration

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WANG CHOON YIN lwn. DATO' SERI HJ MUSTAFAR HJ ALI
PENGERUSI LEMBAGA TATATERTIB KUMPULAN SOKONGAN (NO. 1)
JABATAN IMIGRESEN MALAYSIA & YANG LAIN [2020] 7 CLJ 621
MAHKAMAH RAYUAN, PUTRAJAYA
KAMARDIN HASHIM HMR; LEE SWEE SENG HMR; AZIZAH NAWAWI HMR
[RAYUAN SIVIL NO: B-01(A)-20-01-2019]
21 MAY 2020

UNDANG-UNDANG PENTADBIRAN: Semakan kehakiman - Permohonan kebenaran semakan kehakiman - Permohonan menyemak keputusan pembuangan kerja pemohon sebagai pegawai awam - Sama ada isu penggabungan pihak-pihak wajar dipertimbangkan - Sama ada pemohon menamakan pihak-pihak yang tidak sepatutnya - Sama ada pemohon berhak mendapatkan ganti rugi - Sama ada relief ganti rugi boleh diketepikan - Kaedah-kaedah Mahkamah 2012, A. 53 k. 2(4) & A. 53 k. 5(1)(b)

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LOH TINA & ORS v. KEMUNING SETIA SDN BHD & ORS AND ANOTHER APPEAL [2020] 7 CLJ 720
COURT OF APPEAL, PUTRAJAYA
SURAYA OTHMAN JCA; LAU BEE LAN JCA; LEE SWEE SENG JCA
[CIVIL APPEALS NO: P-02(NCVC)(W)-540-03-2019 & P-02(NCVC)(W)-569-03-2019]
04 JUNE 2020

LAND LAW: Housing developers - Transfer of lease - Whether developer under Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 ('HDA') and its attendant Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Regulations 1989 ('Regulations') could transfer lease of freehold subdivided title of house - Whether purchasers aware they would be getting leasehold interest in land and consented to it - Whether developer and proprietor of land had right to build housing accommodation and sell other than by way of relevant standard sale and purchase agreement ('SPA') - Whether developer a developer within meaning of HDA - Developer deviated from HDA and the Regulations by modifying standard statutory form of SPA in Schedule G without certificate of Controller of Housing - Whether developer in breach of HDA and Regulations - Whether purchasers estopped from claiming specific performance of SPA - Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Regulations 1989, reg. 11(1) & (3) - Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966, s. 5

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“When our rakyat and the populace globally is in a state of mental anguish, it is least expected from our people including the accused persons, not to respect the dictates of the State via its law enforcement machinery to abide and adhere to the MCO imposed.”

“But for breach of the regulations and the MCO, do they deserve a three months' term of incarceration? This court in exercise of its revisionary jurisdiction finds it harsh and severely excessive, after taking into consideration the nature of the breach, the prevailing plea in mitigation as well as public interest. Within that orbit, and pursuant to ss. 31 and 35 of the Courts of Judicature Act read together with ss. 325(1) and 316(b)(ii) of the Criminal Procedure Code, this court takes the position to alter the sentence from that of three months' imprisonment meted out to an alternative punishment in the form of a compulsory attendance order under s. 5(1) of the Offenders Compulsory Attendance Act 1954, requiring both the accused persons to attend daily at the Perak Compulsory Attendance Centre and to undertake compulsory work for a period of three months for four hours each day.” – per Muniandy Kannyappan JC in Chin Chee Wei & Anor v. PP [2020] 5 CLJ 640

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1. Johannes Jacobus Venter v. PP [2019] 1 LNS 1486 (CA) overruling in part the High Court case of PP v. Johannes Jacobus Venter [Criminal Trial No: 45A-44-04/2015]

2. Borneo Marble Limited v. Datuk Yong Teck Lee & Ors [2019] 1 LNS 1487 (CA) overruling in part the High Court case of Borneo Marble Limited v. Datuk Yong Teck Lee & Anor [Suit No: BKI-22NCVC-107/10-2015 (HC1)]

Legal Network Series

[2018] 1 LNS 644	KAW SOON KIT lwn. LEMBAGA PENCEGAHAN JENAYAH, MALAYSIA & YANG LAIN DAN KES YANG LAIN Di dalam kes perintah pengawasan, pengukur bagi melaksanakan tanggungjawab statutori adalah 'seawal praktikal yang munasabah' dan ini memerlukan pertimbangan terhadap alasan-alasan kelewatan yang dikemukakan. Inkuiri yang dijalankan selepas 8 hari setelah dimaklumkan mengenai reman adalah merupakan seawal praktikal yang munasabah sepertimana yang dinyatakan di bawah s. 10(2) Akta Pencegahan Jenayah 1959. UNDANG-UNDANG PENTADBIRAN: Perjalanan kuasa-kuasa pentadbiran - Semakan kehakiman - Pembatalan perintah pengawasan polis - Sama ada perintah pengawasan polis yang dikeluarkan adalah mengikut kehendak undang-undang - Sama ada inkuiri yang dijalankan selepas 8 hari dimaklumkan mengenai reman adalah seawal praktikal yang munasabah berdasarkan s. 10(2) Akta Pencegahan Jenayah 1959 ('APJ 1959') - Sama ada peruntukan s. 9(3)(d) APJ 1959 merupakan suatu kehendak prosedur yang perlu dipatuhi bagi maksud pengeluaran perintah pengawasan polis - Sama ada pemohon telah dimaklumkan oleh pegawai inkuiri berkenaan keterangan yang telah diterima Bagi pihak pemohon-pemohon - Zafran Zafri & Danial Amir; T/n Zafri & Partners Bagi pihak responden-responden - Siti Syafinaz; Pejabat Penasihat Undang-Undang Kementerian Dalam Negeri
[2019] 1 LNS 464	YUEN VUN CHAI & SATU LAGI lwn. LEE NIEN KUO DAN SATU LAGI KES Di dalam satu kes tuntutan ganti rugi disebabkan kecederaan akibat dari kemalangan jalanraya, kos bagi penjagaan yang diberikan oleh ahli keluarga seperti seorang isteri, walaupun tidak dibayar upah untuk penjagaan tersebut, boleh dituntut. GANTI RUGI: Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap awad - Ganti rugi am - Sama ada wujud kes prima facie bahawa kesemua kecederaan yang dilapor di dalam laporan perubatan adalah disebabkan oleh kemalangan GANTI RUGI: Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap awad - Kos penjagaan - Plaintif berjalan dengan keadaan 'unstable gait' - Isteri plaintif terpaksa berhenti kerja untuk menjaga plaintif - Plaintif tidak membayar upah kepada isteri untuk menjaganya - Sama ada plaintif berhak untuk menuntut kos penjagaan yang diberikan oleh isterinya - Sama ada jumlah RM1,000 sebulan adalah adil dan munasabah sebagai kos penjagaan - Sama ada plaintif wajar diberikan kos penjagaan masa hadapan GANTI RUGI: Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap awad - Ganti rugi am - Hakim bicara memberikan RM60,000 untuk kecederaan Erectile Dysfunction dan RM50,000 untuk kos perubatan masa hadapan untuk impotency - Sama ada ganti rugi yang diberikan adalah munasabah Bagi pihak defendan/perayu - Muhamad Faizal Mokhtar; T/n Balarajah & Company Bagi pihak plaintif/responden - Teo Han Ley; T/n Teo & Associates
[2019] 1 LNS 485	RAZANI FATIHAH & SATU LAGI lwn. MUHAMMAD NAIM TAHIR Kemalangan jalan raya yang berlaku ketika pemandu motorkar membuat pusingan U tidak akan meletakkan liabiliti 100% ke atas dirinya apabila pengguna jalan raya yang lain mempunyai peluang untuk mengekalkan dan memperlahankan kenderaannya daripada terlibat dalam kemalangan. LALULINTAS JALAN: Kecuaian - Kemalangan jalan raya - Penentuan liabiliti - Kecuaian sumbangan - Perlanggaran antara motorsikal dan motorkar ketika motorkar membuat pusingan U - Keadaan jalan yang lurus dan tidak terhalang - Sama ada penunggang motorsikal telah mengambil langkah-langkah munasabah untuk mengekalkan dan memperlahankan motorsikalnya daripada berlakunya kemalangan - Sama ada penunggang motorsikal sepatutnya boleh melihat pemandu motorkar daripada jarak jauh - Sama ada penunggang motorsikal telah cuai sumbang dalam kemalangan KETERANGAN: Pembuktian - Kecuaian - Plaintif gagal hadir di mahkamah untuk memberikan keterangan - Penentuan liabiliti berkenaan kemalangan jalan raya - Sama ada plaintif masih boleh membuktikan kecuaian melalui proses pemeriksaan balas ke atas defendan - Sama ada plaintif boleh membuktikan kecuaian melalui keterangan pegawai penyiasat dan hasil siasatan pegawai tersebut GANTI RUGI: Kecederaan diri - Kos penjagaan - Penyandaran kepada sebut harga untuk kos dan caj rawatan yang tinggi daripada hospital swasta - Sama ada plaintif mempunyai tanggungjawb untuk mengurangkan kerugian Bagi pihak plaintif - HS Mann; T/n NM Tiong & Co Bagi pihak defendan - Azizi Ahmad Shaghir & KH Chai; T/n Othman Hashim & Co
[2019] 1 LNS 633	OON HOON WAH v. BIGTREND CONSTRUCTION SDN BHD 1. A petitioner will suffer damages if expenses and costs incurred in a frivolous litigation commenced by a contributory is added to the distributable assets and balance is shared pari passu thereafter. Hence, the said expenses and costs of litigation should only be deducted from the pari passu share of the contributory concerned instead of from the distributable assets. 2. An affidavit in opposition of an application filed out of time by a respondent should not be considered when the delay is not explained. Hence, the assertions made in an affidavit in support of an application is deemed to have been admitted by the respondent. COMPANY LAW: Liquidators - Exercise and control of liquidator's powers - Distribution of asset - Existence of previous frivolous litigation by a contributory - Litigation commenced by contributory was for collateral purpose of oppressing petitioner by creating legal expenses to severely deplete distribution of assets of respondent - Whether distribution should be pari passu - Whether petitioner will suffer damages if expenses are added to distributable assets first and balance shared pari passu - Whether expenses and costs of litigation must be deducted from pari passu share of contributory who brought frivolous litigation CIVIL PROCEDURE: Affidavit - Admissibility - Affidavit in opposition filed out of time - Affidavit served 11 days beyond time allowed by registrar - Delay unexplained - Whether affidavit should be considered in an application - Whether respondent was taken not to have presented any affidavit evidence to dispute and refute assertions made in affidavit in support of an application For the applicant - Paul Tang; M/s Tan, Yap & Tang For the contributory (Oon Kim Aik) - Arthur Lee & Sylvester Lai; M/s Arthur Lee, Lin & Co For the liquidator - Alvin Chong; M/s Alvin Chong & Partners
[2019] 1 LNS 634	CHUNG NYUK VUI v. YUS RAZINA RANGKUT 1. A judgment creditor's right and interest in the property of judgment debtors would be adversely affected by the existence of a caveat on the said property. Hence, a judgment creditor, being an aggrieved party, is entitled to remove the caveat. 2. One cannot create or attribute a beneficial interest in land based on a promise. Hence, a promisee is not entitled to lodge a caveat due merely to the existence of a promise by a land owner to transfer his half share in land in favour of the promisee. LAND LAW: Caveat - Private caveat - Removal of caveat - Application by judgment creditor ('JC') to remove caveat - Caveat lodged by wife of judgment debtor ('JD') on his half share which he promised to transfer to his wife - Land was successfully sold by public auction pursuant to an order for sale by JC - Whether JC's right and interest in property of JD was adversely affected by caveat - Whether caveat has obstructed transfer of land to successful bidder - Whether JC was a person aggrieved by existence of caveat - Sarawak Land Code, s. 177 LAND LAW: Caveat - Caveatable interest - Beneficial interest - Caveat lodged by wife of owner of land on his half share which he promised to transfer to his wife - Whether a person could create or attribute beneficial interest in land based on a promise - Whether there was a caveatable interest For the plaintiff - Acting in person For the defendant - Defending in person

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CLJ 2020 Volume 7 (Part 5)

An administrator who administers a landed property of a deceased estate in Sarawak, upon a proper reading of the words 'registered proprietor' in ss. 115, 177 and 218 of the Sarawak Land Code and 'representative' in s. 2 thereof, as well as 'administrator' in ss. 4, 5 and 17 of the Sarawak Estate Ordinance and 'vest' in s. 15 thereof, has the locus standi to bring an action to remove a caveat lodged against a parcel of land under the estate. Section 218 of the Code deems the deceased proprietor as including his 'executors and administrators' while s. 115 thereof deems the administrator as a 'registered proprietor', and hence, the administrator, for the purpose of s. 177(1) of the Code, has become and is considered a registered proprietor in law. Likewise, since s. 2 of the Code recognises such administrator as the 'representative' of the estate, and since the word "vest" in s. 15 of the Ordinance deems that once an administrator is appointed under the letters of administration, all the property, estate and effects of the deceased have vested in him, the administrator therefore stands in the shoes of the deceased proprietor and is capable of dealing with the property as if he himself is the proprietor.
Tebin Mostapa v. Hulba-Danyal Balia & Anor [2020] 7 CLJ 561 [FC]

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A defendant whose action has been struck out under O. 18 r. 19 of the Rules of Court 2012 for reason of lack of locus standi is barred by res judicata from reopening an action even under the ground of availability of fresh evidence if the application's net effect is to re-litigate the action against the same parties on the same facts and for the same relief; more so when the alleged fresh evidence was available when the first suit was filed and no explanation was proffered as to why it has not been adduced in the first suit.
Dato’ Ahmad Johari Tun Abdul Razak v. A Santamil Selvi Alau Malay & Ors And Other Appeals [2020] 7 CLJ 588 [CA]

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Seorang pegawai awam (pegawai imigresen) yang telah dibuang kerja ekoran tindakan tatatertib yang diambil terhadapnya di bawah Peraturan-Peraturan Pegawai Awam (Kelakuan dan Tatatertib) 1993, dalam memohon semakan kehakiman untuk perintah-perintah certiorari dan mandamus di bawah A. 53 Kaedah-Kaedah Mahkamah 2012, tidak boleh menamakan Pengerusi Lembaga Tatatertib Jabatan atau Pengerusi Lembaga Rayuan Tatatertib Perkhidmatan Awam sebagai pihak kepada permohonan, kerana tindakan tatatertib dan keputusan membuang kerja tidak dibuat oleh mereka secara peribadi tetapi oleh Lembaga-Lembaga yang berkaitan. Menamakan mereka sebagai pihak adalah satu misjoinder, sekaligus menjadikan permohonan untuk mendapatkan kebenaran tidak berkompeten, remeh dan menyusahkan. Juga nyata bahawa dalam prosiding sedemikian, adalah tidak terbuka bagi penjawat awam tersebut untuk memohon relif gantirugi kerana mengalami trauma mental, emosi dan psikologi dan sebagainya; ini kerana satu-satunya relif yang boleh diberi jika syarat undang-undang telah dipenuhi adalah untuk pengembalian kedudukan jawatannya, serta gaji dan emolumen yang terhak kepadanya.
Wang Choon Yin lwn. Dato’ Seri Hj Mustafar Hj Ali Pengerusi Lembaga Tatatertib Kumpulan Sokongan (No. 1) Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia & Yang Lain [2020] 7 CLJ 621 [CA]

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Where a vendor has accepted all payments from a purchaser for a piece of land, and has granted the latter vacant possession thereof, the fact that the land has yet to be registered in the purchaser's name does not confer any legal or equitable interest in the land to the vendor. The vendor's title to the land has lapsed and has been defeated by both ss. 340(2)(a) and s. 340(4)(b) of the National Land Code. The purchaser being a purchaser in good faith and for valuable consideration within the meaning of s. 5 of the National Land Code, an inference arises that a valid contract had existed as between them, thereby relegating the vendor to a mere bare trustee for the purchaser.
Hamdiah Ahmad & Anor v. Pembangunan Tanah Dan Perumahan Sdn Bhd [2020] 7 CLJ 640 [HC]

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"Pengeluar buah kelapa sawit" ialah mana-mana orang yang mempunyai kebun kelapa sawit berkeluasan tidak kurang 40.46 hektar atau agregat berjumlah tidak kurang 40.46 hektar, dan pengeluar yang sedemikian wajib membayar SES kepada Lembaga Minyak Kelapa Sawit berdasarkan Perintah Lembaga Minyak Kelapa Sawit (SES) (Buah Kelapa Sawit) 2007 (Perintah). Walaupun pengeluar tersebut bukan merupakan pemilik tanah tetapi hanyalah sebuah koperasi seperti pemohon di sini yang mengurus dan mengawal selia tanah, ia masih tertakluk kepada kehendak dan tuntutan Perintah kerana pengecualian membayar SES hanya boleh diberi jika pengeluar adalah sebuah agensi Kerajaan.
Koperasi Rancangan Tanah Sungai Sungkai Mati Hilir Perak Bhd lwn. Lembaga Minyak Sawit Malaysia [2020] 7 CLJ 666 [HC]

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Whilst the plaintiff Malaysia Airports (Sepang) Sdn Bhd is licensed to manage, operate, maintain and provide aviation and passenger related services at KLIA and KLIA2 under the Civil Aviation Act 1969, the power and authority to levy passenger service charges at the airports on providers of air transport services such as the defendant AirAsia X Berhad lies with the Malaysian Aviation Commission, and not the plaintiff. It follows that any challenge on the validity of such service charges, be it by way of judicial review or otherwise, must be directed against the Malaysian Aviation Commission, and not against the plaintiff who is merely enforcing what is statutorily incumbent upon it to claim. The defendant should therefore have moved for judicial review against the Commission statutory body, rather than seeking for mediation of its disputes with the plaintiff.
Malaysia Airports (Sepang) Sdn Bhd v. AirAsia X Bhd [2020] 7 CLJ 678 [HC]

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CLJ 2020 Volume 7 (Part 6)

The introduction of the Minimum Wages Order 2012 should not prevent employees from receiving the payment of service charge that they have been receiving. They are entitled to such payment over and above their basic minimum wage. It would be wrong for an employer to utilise the monies collected from payments of service charges to assist it in meeting its obligation to pay its employees the basic minimum wages. Paying the employees the basic minimum wages was the employer's responsibility.
Crystal Crown Hotel & Resort Sdn Bhd (Crystal Crown Hotel Petaling Jaya) v. Kesatuan Kebangsaan Pekerja-pekerja Hotel, Bar & Resort Semenanjung Malaysia [2020] 7 CLJ 709 [CA]

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A developer that deviates from the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966 and the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Regulations 1989 by modifying the standard statutory form of the sale and purchase agreement (SPA) without a certificate of the Controller of Housing approving the modification is breaching the Act and the Regulations. The purchasers would be entitled to enforce their rights as if the SPA had been in its prescribed form without any amendment or modification, and to hold the developer and proprietor to the terms prescribed by Schedule G of the Regulations. The Regulations compels compliance with the statutory Schedule G SPA and developers and proprietors who choose not to follow it do so at their own peril.
Loh Tina & Ors v. Kemuning Setia Sdn Bhd & Ors And Another Appeal [2020] 7 CLJ 720 [CA]

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The claim by 'the Sun' national newspaper against Nielsen Company (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd whose syndicated survey had allegedly under-represented their readership numbers and caused financial losses to them is unsustainable as in the absence of a legal duty of care owed by the latter to the former, the issues in respect of the breach of a duty of care, or of the alleged inaccuracy of the data became inconsequential and irrelevant. The data in the survey, which was primarily statistical and not premised on words, further, cannot by itself or by innuendo have a defamatory meaning, thereby rendering the action for malicious falsehood equally unsustainable in law.
Sun Media Corporation Sdn Bhd v. The Nielsen Company (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd [2020] 7 CLJ 751 [CA]

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It is only in cases where the claim is obviously unsustainable that recourse should be had to the summary process under O. 18 r. 19 (1) Rules of Court 2012, and such recourse cannot be exercised by a minute examination of the documents and facts of the case. A claim by bus service operators whose busses had been repossessed by the lessor owner of the busses alleging that they were under great pressure to get back the busses for the Hari Raya season and therefore had to agree to a Settlement Agreement in which they would transfer their landed property to the latter for a price of RM16 million towards part-payment of the debt notwithstanding its actual value of RM55 million, cannot be so bereft of triable issues as would attract the invocation of O. 18 r. 19(1); more so when the pleas of coercive conduct and unjust enrichment, which were not necessarily unsupportable by evidence, have been levelled against the lessor owner. In the circumstances, and considering inter alia the purport of ss. 73 and 71 of the Contracts Act 1950, the bus operators ought to be given the opportunity to ventilate their grievances at a proper trial.
Transnasional Express Sdn Bhd & Ors v. Tan Chong Industrial Equipment Sdn Bhd [2020] 7 CLJ 769 [CA]

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Statements recorded by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission from potential witnesses in the course of investigation are privileged from disclosure on policy grounds; the issue of the statements having been made in official confidence aside, disclosing such statements may lead to witness-tampering and is thus detrimental to public interest.
Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Hj Abd Razak v. PP [2020] 7 CLJ 785 [HC]

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The sijil faraid which states the name of the deceased, the time of death, the rightful beneficiaries and the respective entitlements serves as the best supporting evidence in the matter of the distribution of a Muslim estate; it clothes the beneficiaries with the necessary legal capacity or locus standi to bring a suit for the due distribution of the estate.
Sulaiman Ahmad & Ors v. Jemain Mohamed & Ors [2020] 7 CLJ 820 [HC]

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LNS Article(s)

1. "THOSE WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY" - ON THE JURISPRUDENCE OF ENOCH POWELL AND ITS EFFECT ON THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AT LARGE ^{[Read excerpt]}
   by Matthew Jerome Van Huizen* [2020] 1 LNS(A) lxxxvii

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MALAYSIA

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"THOSE WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY" -
ON THE JURISPRUDENCE OF ENOCH POWELL AND ITS EFFECT ON
THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AT LARGE

by
Matthew Jerome Van Huizen*

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this essay is to explore and introduce the jurisprudence of Enoch Powell, MP, to the Malaysian Legal and Academical field. It is noted that several ideas of Enoch Powell have shaped modern Britain in ways that he predicted, i.e. the emergence of Brexit and the Black Lives Matter movement and the collapse of Multi-National treaties. Therefore, some resource on his jurisprudence must be made available to Malaysian jurists especially those currently lecturing on this subject as well as reading law in the local universities. The author further believes that this essay can be an important resource to aid other legal stakeholders such as legislators, both in the State Assemblies as well as in Parliament, in the basic understanding of the jurisprudence of Enoch Powell.

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*Advocate And Solicitor, Jurisprudence Book Prize Award Winner (MMU) (2016).

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2. THE CONCEPT OF ASYLUM IN ISLAM AND INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE LAW: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW ^{[Read excerpt]}
   by Nehaluddin Ahmad^[i] Syazana Syafiqah Adilah Bt Haji Mahdini^[ii] Nurul Nabihah Naqsyabandiah Bt Pg Hj Ibrahim^[iii] [2020] 1 LNS(A) lxxxviii

[2020] 1 LNS(A) lxxxviii



INTERNATIONAL

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THE CONCEPT OF ASYLUM IN ISLAM AND INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE LAW:
A CRITICAL OVERVIEW

by
Nehaluddin Ahmad^[i]
Syazana Syafiqah Adilah Bt Haji Mahdini^[ii]
Nurul Nabihah Naqsyabandiah Bt Pg Hj Ibrahim^[iii]

Abstract

Islam provides a normative framework for socio-economic justice, including asylum, and sets out regulations for the assistance and protection of refugees. The concept of refugees and asylum are important subjects in International Law as well as in Islamic law. Islamic theory and teachings relating to refugees and forced displacement are known as hijrah law. In the past, Islam made a great contribution to the protection of the refugee's rights. However, Islamic (hijrah) law is rarely practiced or invoked today, though Muslims constitute the largest refugee populations worldwide. This paper focuses on the role of Islamic traditions and the Modern International law relating to refugee's protection and their rights. It concludes that there is a contradiction between the Islamic tradition of hijrah and aman and its practice today. The article further determines that Islamic law has a broader perception than the concept given by modern International Refugee Law.

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[i] MA, LL.B., LL.M. (Lucknow University, India), LL.M. (Strathclyde University, UK), LL.D. (Meerut University, India); Professor of Law, Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA), Brunei Darussalam Email: ahmadnehal@yahoo.com.

[ii] LLB & Bachelor of Shariah (BSL), LL.M. (Comp.) Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA), Brunei Darussalam.

[iii] LLB & Bachelor of Shariah (BSL), LL.M. (Comp.) Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA), Brunei Darussalam.

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