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Issue #6/2018 08 February 2018

New This Week Case(s) of the Week DINESH KANAVAJI KANAWAGI & ANOR v. RAGUMAREN N GOPAL; MAJLIS PEGUAM (INTERVENER) [2018] 2 CLJ 1 Latest Cases Legal Network Series CLJ 2018 Volume 2 (Part 1) Articles LNS Article(s) Legislation Highlights Principal Acts Amending Acts PU(A) PU(B) Legislation Alert

DINESH KANAVAJI KANAWAGI & ANOR v.
RAGUMAREN N GOPAL;
MAJLIS PEGUAM (INTERVENER) [2018] 2 CLJ 1
FEDERAL COURT, PUTRAJAYA
MD RAUS SHARIF CJ; AHMAD MAAROP CJ (MALAYA); AZAHAR MOHAMED FCJ; ZAHARAH IBRAHIM FCJ; PRASAD SANDOSHAM ABRAHAM FCJ
[CIVIL APPEAL NO: 02(F)-65-10-2015 (W)]
29 NOVEMBER 2017

LEGAL PROFESSION: Roll of Advocates and Solicitors - Struck off - Appeal against - Disciplinary Board made order for appellants to be struck off Rolls of Advocates and Solicitors at conclusion of disciplinary proceedings - Allegation of serious misconduct - Whether Disciplinary Committee forwarded record of investigation proceeding to Director of complaints as required by r. 26(2) of Legal Profession (Disciplinary Proceedings) (Investigating Tribunal and Disciplinary Committee) Rules 1994 - Whether Disciplinary Committee's report complied with provisions of Legal Profession Act 1976 - Whether power to call persons to give oral evidence vests with Disciplinary Committee - Whether procedure conducted by Disciplinary Committee fair - Whether appellants must be judged by peers - Whether alleged unlawful acts committed in professional capacity - Whether conduct unbefitting of advocate and solicitor within definition of 'misconduct' - Legal Profession Act 1976, s. 94(3)(o) - Whether recommendation to be struck off Roll harsh - Principle of proportionality in meting out sentences - Whether applicable

WORDS & PHRASES: 'in a professional capacity or otherwise' - Legal Profession Act 1976, s. 94(3) - Whether word 'otherwise' wide enough to include acts or omissions in any capacity other than as advocate and solicitor

WORDS & PHRASES: 'misconduct' - Legal Profession Act 1976, s. 94(3) - Whether includes circumstances set out in s. 94(3)(a) to (o) - Whether conduct unbefitting of advocate and solicitor within definition of 'misconduct'

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Legal Network Series

[2016] 1 LNS 946	PP lwn. ANUAR AB RAWI	PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Penghukuman - Mitigasi - Pertuduhan di bawah s. 130JB(1)(a) Kanun Keseksaan - Kesalahan memiliki material yang berkaitan dengan perbuatan pengganas - Pengakuan bersalah - Kesalahan pertama - Tertuduh mendakwa telah insaf - Tertuduh merupakan seorang imam dan pendakwah - Sama ada faktor utama yang perlu diberi penekanan adalah faktor kepentingan awam - Sama ada sebarang kesalahan yang berkaitan dengan keganasan adalah serius - Sama ada mahkamah perlu mengekang fenomena keganasan demi kemakmuran dan kestabilan negara
[2016] 1 LNS 955	ISHAK AHMAD lwn. PENTADBIR TANAH BENTONG	UNDANG-UNDANG TANAH: Pengambilan - Pampasan - Nilai tanah - Penentuan nilai tanah - Nilai pembangunan tanah - Tanah ditanam kelapa sawit dan durian - Sama ada jumlah pampasan nilai tanah dibayar terlalu rendah berbanding nilai pasaran sebenar - Sama ada lokaliti perbandingan penilai kerajaan dan penilai swasta terletak di lokasi yang sama - Sama ada harga pasaran bagi tanah yang ditanam dengan kelapa sawit dan durian mempunyai julat harga yang melebihi 100% - Sama ada nilai pembangunan tanah yang diambil dan dibayar adalah merupakan pembayaran dua kali terhadap nilai tanah - Sama ada faktor pecah pisah perlu dipertimbangkan apabila pengasingan tanah menjadi lebih baik - Sama ada bahagian menghadap jalan utama yang ada pembangunan adalah bernilai lebih tinggi
[2016] 1 LNS 1373	ESPARO SDN BHD v. BANK PERTANIAN MALAYSIA BERHAD (NO 2)	CIVIL PROCEDURE: Injunction - Interlocutory injunction - Interlocutory prohibitory injunction - Application for interlocutory prohibitory injunction filed by plaintiff - Defendant filed an application for striking out main suit which was allowed - Whether interlocutory prohibitory injunction could still be considered if striking out application was allowed - Whether interlocutory prohibitory injunction would collapse if main suit is struck out
[2016] 1 LNS 1376	PUNNIYAMOORTHY PERUMAL & ANOR v. MOHD SYAHIR AZHAR	DAMAGES: Appeal - Appeal against award made - Personal injuries - Right shoulder and flank friction burn injury (TBSA 4%) with disabilities - Burn injury with scars could be corrected through surgery - Non-permanent injury - Trial judge awarded RM60,000 - Whether an award of RM40,000 was reasonable DAMAGES: Appeal - Appeal against award made - Personal injuries - Right 2nd to 4th ribs with right pneumothorax - Trial judge awarded RM30,000 - Whether an award for each rib ranged from RM3,500 to RM4,500 - Whether an award of RM27,000 was reasonable DAMAGES: Appeal - Appeal against award made - Personal injuries - Closed fracture of scapula - Trial judge awarded RM18,000 - Whether an award for dislocation of acromio-clavicular joint ranged from RM11,000 to RM19,000 - Whether an award of RM15,000 was reasonable DAMAGES: Appeal - Appeal against award made - Personal injuries - Right eye subconjunctival hemorrhage with diplopia - Trial judge awarded global sum of RM22,000 - Whether a global award of RM19,500 was reasonable
[2016] 1 LNS 1444	PER: ALFRED LAM CHOONG CHOY; EX-PARTE : DOWNTOWN CONDOMINIUM JOINT MANAGEMENT BODY & OTHER CASE	BANKRUPTCY: Jurisdiction - Jurisdiction of court - Jurisdiction to hear bankruptcy proceedings - Judgment debtor not present in Malaysia at time bankruptcy proceedings commenced - Whether judgement debtor was a 'debtor' under s. 3(3) of Bankruptcy Act - Whether judgment creditor's petition had satisfied relevant criteria in s. 5(1)(d) of Bankruptcy Act BANKRUPTCY: Creditor's petition - Opposition to - Challenge made to statements made in creditor's petition - Judgment debtor failed to file notice to show cause and notice of application within 3 days before hearing of creditor's petition pursuant to r. 117 Bankruptcy Rules - Whether failure to adhere to statutory requirements to dispute creditor's petition pursuant to r. 117 Bankruptcy Rules was fatal BANKRUPTCY: Creditor's petition - Opposition to - Allegation creditor's petition and affidavit in support signed and affirmed by unauthorised person - Bankruptcy proceedings commenced by a joint management body - Creditors petition filed by management agent of joint management body - Whether requirement of s. 133(a) of Bankrupcy Act and r. 215 of Bankruptcy Rules satisfied - Whether creditor's petition and affidavit in support were signed and affirmed by an authorised person BANKRUPTCY: Setting aside - Application to set aside - Setting aside of bankruptcy notice and creditor's petition - Wrong mode of commencement - Setting aside application was filed by way of notice of application instead of summons in chambers - Whether application contravened r. 18 of Bankruptcy Rules

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CLJ 2018 Volume 2 (Part 1)

FEDERAL COURT

Dinesh Kanavaji Kanawagi & Anor v. Ragumaren N Gopal; Majlis Peguam (Intervener)
Md Raus Sharif CJ, Ahmad Maarop CJ (Malaya), Azahar Mohamed, Zaharah Ibrahim, Prasad Sandosham Abraham FCJJ
(Legal Profession; Words & Phrases - Roll of Advocates and Solicitors - Struck off - Appeal against - Principle of proportionality in meting out sentences) [2018] 2 CLJ 1 [FC]

COURT OF APPEAL

Agbu Goodluck Ugochukwu lwn. PP
Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Idrus Harun, Yaacob Md Sam HHMR
(Prosedur Jenayah; Keterangan - Rayuan - Perayu disabitkan kesalahan mengedar dadah dan dijatuhkan hukuman mati - Sama ada sabitan dan hukuman selamat) [2018] 2 CLJ 30 [CA]

Ahmad Marsidi Ismail v. PP
Mohtarudin Baki, Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal, Ab Karim Ab Jalil JJCA
(Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure - Drugs found under passenger's seat of car - Whether smell from cannabis connoted knowledge) [2018] 2 CLJ 53 [CA]

Norihan Talib & Ors v. Mohd Nasir Hassan & Ors And Another Appeal
Abang Iskandar, Mary Lim JJCA, Suraya Othman J
(Civil Procedure - Setting aside - Statement of claim - Recovery of monies paid in investment scheme) [2018] 2 CLJ 66 [CA]

Tan Wei Hong & Ors v. Malaysia Airlines System Bhd & Ors
Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Vernon Ong Lam Kiat, Abdul Rahman Sebli JJCA
(Civil Procedure - Striking out - Claim for negligence for causing disappearance and presumptive death by dependents of deceased persons on board flight MH370) [2018] 2 CLJ 84 [CA]

HIGH COURT

Dato' Seri Timor Shah Rafiq v. Nautilus Tug & Towage Sdn Bhd
Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali J
(Company Law - Accounts - Rights of inspection as director - Whether director obliged to provide reason for request) [2018] 2 CLJ 103 [HC]

SUBJECT INDEX

CIVIL PROCEDURE

Setting aside - Statement of claim - Recovery of monies paid in investment scheme - Application to set aside action - Whether investment scheme illegal - Whether scheme contravened Financial Services Act 2013 and Direct Selling Act 1993 - Whether claim disclosed reasonable cause of action - High Court's order granting application for Mareva injunction - Whether claim should be allowed since court already granted mareva injunction after finding that there was good arguable case - Whether claim founded on illegal and unlawful scheme could be enforced
Norihan Talib & Ors v. Mohd Nasir Hassan & Ors And Another Appeal
(Abang Iskandar, Mary Lim JJCA, Suraya Othman J) [2018] 2 CLJ 66 [CA]

Striking out - Statement of claim - Claim for negligence for causing disappearance and presumptive death by dependents of deceased persons on board flight MH370 - Whether matters pleaded in statement of claim sustainable or raised reasonable cause of action - Whether High Court Judge erred in striking out appellants' action against third, fourth and fifth respondents
Tan Wei Hong & Ors v. Malaysia Airlines System Bhd & Ors
(Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Vernon Ong Lam Kiat, Abdul Rahman Sebli JJCA) [2018] 2 CLJ 84 [CA]

COMPANY LAW

Accounts - Inspection, application for - Rights of inspection as director - Whether director entitled to inspect accounts - Whether rights unfettered - Whether right to inspect connected to discharge of director's duties - Whether right not available if bad faith proved - Whether director obliged to provide reason for request - Whether requirements of s. 167(6) of Companies Act 1965 complied with
Dato' Seri Timor Shah Rafiq v. Nautilus Tug & Towage Sdn Bhd
(Mohd Nazlan Ghazali J) [2018] 2 CLJ 103 [HC]

CRIMINAL LAW

Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (`DDA') - Section 39B(1)(a) - Trafficking in 973g of cannabis - Drugs found under passenger's seat of accused's car - Whether accused had custody and control of drugs - Whether smell from cannabis connoted knowledge of cannabis in car - Findings of trial judge that accused had mens rea possession of drugs without recourse to presumption under s. 37(d) of DDA - Presumption of trafficking under s. 37(da) of DDA based on weight of drugs seized - Accused sentenced to death - Case of PP v. Abdul Rahman Akif - Whether applicable - Whether conviction and sentence safe - Whether ought to be substituted with conviction under s. 6 of DDA punishable under s. 39A(2) of DDA
Ahmad Marsidi Ismail v. PP
(Mohtarudin Baki, Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal, Ab Karim Ab Jalil JJCA) [2018] 2 CLJ 53 [CA]

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Appeal - Appeal against conviction and sentence - Drugs found under passenger's seat of accused's car - Whether accused had custody and control of drugs - Whether smell from cannabis connoted knowledge of cannabis in car - Whether trial judge erred in finding that accused had mens rea possession of drugs without recourse to presumption under s. 37(d) of DDA - Whether trial judge erred in finding that accused had knowledge of drugs based on smell emanating from drugs - Whether conviction and sentence safe - Whether ought to be set aside
Ahmad Marsidi Ismail v. PP
(Mohtarudin Baki, Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal, Ab Karim Ab Jalil JJCA) [2018] 2 CLJ 53 [CA]

LEGAL PROFESSION

Roll of Advocates and Solicitors - Struck off - Appeal against - Disciplinary Board made order for appellants to be struck off Rolls of Advocates and Solicitors at conclusion of disciplinary proceedings - Allegation of serious misconduct - Whether Disciplinary Committee forwarded record of investigation proceeding to Director of complaints as required by r. 26(2) of Legal Profession (Disciplinary Proceedings) (Investigating Tribunal and Disciplinary Committee) Rules 1994 - Whether Disciplinary Committee's report complied with provisions of Legal Profession Act 1976 - Whether power to call persons to give oral evidence vests with Disciplinary Committee - Whether procedure conducted by Disciplinary Committee fair - Whether appellants must be judged by peers - Whether alleged unlawful acts committed in professional capacity - Whether conduct unbefitting of advocate and solicitor within definition of `misconduct' - Legal Profession Act 1976, s. 94(3)(o) - Whether recommendation to be struck off Roll harsh - Principle of proportionality in meting out sentences - Whether applicable
Dinesh Kanavaji Kanawagi & Anor v. Ragumaren N Gopal; Majlis Peguam (Intervener)
(Md Raus Sharif CJ, Ahmad Maarop CJ (Malaya), Azahar Mohamed, Zaharah Ibrahim, Prasad Sandosham Abraham FCJJ) [2018] 2 CLJ 1 [FC]

WORDS & PHRASES

'in a professional capacity or otherwise' - Legal Profession Act 1976, s. 94(3) - Whether word `otherwise' wide enough to include acts or omissions in any capacity other than as advocate and solicitor
Dinesh Kanavaji Kanawagi & Anor v. Ragumaren N Gopal; Majlis Peguam (Intervener)
(Md Raus Sharif CJ, Ahmad Maarop CJ (Malaya), Azahar Mohamed, Zaharah Ibrahim, Prasad Sandosham Abraham FCJJ) [2018] 2 CLJ 1 [FC]

`misconduct' - Legal Profession Act 1976, s. 94(3) - Whether includes circumstances set out in s. 94(3)(a) to (o) - Whether conduct unbefitting of advocate and solicitor within definition of `misconduct'
Dinesh Kanavaji Kanawagi & Anor v. Ragumaren N Gopal; Majlis Peguam (Intervener)
(Md Raus Sharif CJ, Ahmad Maarop CJ (Malaya), Azahar Mohamed, Zaharah Ibrahim, Prasad Sandosham Abraham FCJJ) [2018] 2 CLJ 1 [FC]

INDEKS PERKARA

KETERANGAN

Anggapan bertentangan - Kegagalan memanggil saksi material - Perayu disabitkan kesalahan mengedar dadah dan dijatuhkan hukuman mati - Dadah dijumpai di dalam bilik di rumah sewa - Kegagalan memanggil penghuni bilik tempat dadah dijumpai - Sama ada menjejaskan kes pendakwaan - Sama ada sabitan dan hukuman selamat - Sama ada anggapan bertentangan wajar dibangkitkan - Akta Keterangan 1950, s. 114(g)
Agbu Goodluck Ugochukwu lwn. PP
(Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Idrus Harun, Yaacob Md Sam HHMR) [2018] 2 CLJ 30 [CA]

PROSEDUR JENAYAH

Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman - Dadah dijumpai di dalam bilik di rumah sewa - Sama ada dadah dijumpai di dalam bilik perayu - Sama ada pakaian yang dijumpai di dalam bilik adalah milik perayu - Perayu disabitkan kesalahan mengedar dadah dan dijatuhkan hukuman mati - Keraguan tempat pakaian dirampas - Sama ada DNA perayu pada pakaian membentuk keterangan sokongan - Sama ada perayu terprejudis - Sama ada sabitan dan hukuman selamat - Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952, ss. 39B(1)(a) & (2)
Agbu Goodluck Ugochukwu lwn. PP
(Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Idrus Harun, Yaacob Md Sam HHMR) [2018] 2 CLJ 30 [CA]

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LNS Article(s)

1. INITIAL COIN OFFERING — A QUICK LOOK* ^{[Read excerpt]}
   BRIAN LYE MOU-YU** [2018] 1 LNS(A) x

[2018] 1 LNS(A) x

MALAYSIA

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INITIAL COIN OFFERING — A QUICK LOOK*

BRIAN LYE MOU-YU**

What are digital 'tokens'?

A digital token is created and cryptographically secured through blockchain as part of a decentralised digital protocol. Each token is a unit representation of the token holder's right to receive a benefit or due performance of a specific function.

There are many different types of tokens, each with varying characteristics and utility. One particular function of a token is currency, like Bitcoin and Ether. While these tokens can serve as a digital medium for transactions, the tokens may also represent a right to tangible assets like luxury goods, commodities or real property in the form of a smart contract.

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* This article is reproduced, with permission, from the Legal Herald (November 2017), a publication by Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill, Advocates & Solicitors, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

**Brian Lye Mou-Yu (blm@lh-ag.com).

2. SAMA ADA PENGGANTUNGAN PELAKSANAAN PERINTAH BOLEH DI BERIKAN OLEH "MAHKAMAH BURUH"? ^{[Read excerpt]}
   RHYMIE BIN MOHD RAMLI* [2018] 1 LNS(A) xiii

[2018] 1 LNS(A) xiii

MALAYSIA

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SAMA ADA PENGGANTUNGAN PELAKSANAAN PERINTAH BOLEH DI BERIKAN OLEH "MAHKAMAH BURUH"?

RHYMIE BIN MOHD RAMLI*

"Mahkamah Buruh" merujuk kepada kuasa menyiasat dan memutuskan aduan yang dibuat di bawah Sekseyn 77 Akta tersebut.

Artikel ini ditulis bertujuan untuk menganalisis persoalan undang-undang iaitu sama ada "Mahkamah Buruh mempunyai bidang kuasa bagi mempertimbangkan penggantungan pelaksanaan sementara rayuan diputuskan. Sebelum menjawab persoalan tersebut, adalah wajar untuk menjelaskan apakah yang dimaksudkan sebagai penggantungan pelaksanaan.

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* LL.B (Hons) UIAM, Pengamal Undang-Undang Pekerjaan.

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