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CLJ Bulletin, Vol 2004, Issue 2
14 January 2004

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KEBANKRAPAN NO. 29-259 TAHUN 2001 LOW HOP BING, J HIGH COURT [MELAKA] 18 DECEMBER 2003

LEE AH LAN (P) v. LEE KIM LAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES SDN BHD & ANOR [2003] 1 LNS 588
GUAMAN SIVIL NO: 22-107-1996 LOW HOP BING, J HIGH COURT [SHAH ALAM] 15 DECEMBER 2003

PP v. MOHD RIDZWAN BIN MD BORHAN [2003] 1 LNS 589
RAYUAN JENAYAH NO: 1-42-7-02 LOW HOP BING, J HIGH COURT [MELAKA] 18 DECEMBER 2003

RE: ENG SONG HUAT EX-PARTE: MALAYAN BANKING BERHAD [2003] 1 LNS 590
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PP v. MD NOR BIN HAMID [2003] 1 LNS 591
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EXXON CHEMICAL (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD v. MENTERI SUMBER MANUSIA, MALAYSIA & 4 ORS [2003] 1 LNS 592
RAYUAN SIVIL NO: W-01-23-1999 ,MOKHTAR SIDIN JCA, KADIR SULAIMAN JCA, AZIZ MOHAMAD JCA COURT OF APPEAL [KUALA LUMPUR] 11 DECEMBER 2003

PP v. TAN CHEE SENG & 2 ORS [2003] 1 LNS 593
PEMBICARAAN JENAYAH NO. 45-15-2000 dan 45-7-2002 JEFFREY TAN, J HIGH COURT [MUAR] 21 AUGUST 2003

OCBC BANK (MALAYSIA) BERHAD v. STAR EDGE SDN BHD & 3 ORS [2003] 1 LNS 594
SUIT NO. 22-55-2000-I LAU BEE LAN, JC HIGH COURT [KUCHING] 1 DECEMBER 2003

Current Law Journal January (Part 1) 2004

COURT OF APPEAL

Lee Cheng Yee v. Tiu Soon Siang & Anor
(Civil procedure - Pleadings - Limitation - Whether must be specifically pleaded) [2004] 1 CLJ 1

Ngeow Voon Yean v. Sungei Wang Plaza Sdn Bhd & Anor
(Administrative law - Exercise of judicial functions - Judicial review - Whether can review findings of fact) [2004] 1 CLJ 8

HIGH COURT

Chong Peng Chong lwn. Chin Lean Fatt & Yang Lain
(Prosedur sivil - Afidavit - Kandungan) [2004] 1 CLJ 22

OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Bhd v. Stephen Hansford Sales (M) Sdn Bhd & Ors & Anor Suit
(Civil procedure - Preliminary objection - Dismissed by registrar - Whether appealable to judge-in-chambers) [2004] 1 CLJ 51

PP v. Lee Hock Lai
(Criminal law - Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 - Section 37(j) - ‘Ten per centum’ rule) [2004] 1 CLJ 57

SUBJECT INDEX

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Exercise of judicial functions - Judicial review - Certiorari proceedings - Jurisdiction of High Court in reviewing decision of Industrial Court - Whether can only exercise supervisory jurisdiction - Whether confined to reviewing errors of law - Whether can review findings of fact - When may High Court correct erroneous findings of fact made by inferior tribunals - Whether conclusions of Industrial Court ‘perverse and so devoid of plausible justification that no reasonable body of persons could have reached it’ - Employee falsely endorsing deeds of assignment - Whether negligence or misconduct justifying dismissal - Whether can rely on defence of ‘obedience to orders of superior’
Ngeow Voon Yean v. Sungei Wang Plaza Sdn Bhd & Anor
(Mohd Noor Ahmad, Richard Malanjum & Hashim Yusoff JJCA) [2004] 1 CLJ 8

CIVIL PROCEDURE

Appeal - Appeal from registrar to judge-in-chambers - Whether decision of registrar dismissing preliminary objection appealable - Whether a ‘judgment, order or decision’ within meaning of O. 56 r. 1(1) Rules of the High Court 1980 and s. 3 Courts of Judicature Act 1964 - Whether a ‘ruling made in the course of a trial or hearing of any cause or matter which does not finally dispose of the rights of the parties’ - Whether dismissal of defendant’s preliminary objection resulted in plaintiff’s application for summary judgment being granted or dismissed
OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Bhd v. Stephen Hansford Sales (M) Sdn Bhd & Ors & Anor Suit
(Mohd Hishamudin Yunus J) [2004] 1 CLJ 51

Pleadings - Limitation - Whether must be specifically pleaded - Whether defendants could still rely on defence of limitation if not pleaded beforehand - When must limitation be pleaded - Whether only when limitation is not absolute - Whether limitation period prescribed by s. 7(5) Civil Law Act 1956 absolute
Lee Cheng Yee v. Tiu Soon Siang & Anor
(Mokhtar Sidin, Pajan Singh Gill & Rahmah Hussain JJCA) [2004] 1 CLJ 1

Preliminary objection - Dismissed by registrar - Whether appealable to judge-in-chambers - Whether decision of registrar a ‘judgment, order or decision’ within meaning of O. 56 r. 1(1) Rules of the High Court 1980 and s. 3 Courts of Judicature Act 1964 - Whether a ‘ruling made in the course of a trial or hearing of any cause or matter which does not finally dispose of the rights of the parties’ - Whether dismissal of defendant’s preliminary objection resulted in plaintiff’s application for summary judgment being granted or dismissed
OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Bhd v. Stephen Hansford Sales (M) Sdn Bhd & Ors & Anor Suit
(Mohd Hishamudin Yunus J) [2004] 1 CLJ 51

CRIMINAL LAW

Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 - Section 37(da) - Presumption of trafficking - Principles and application - Meaning of ‘found in possession’ - Whether prosecution must prove ‘actual possession’ and ‘knowledge’ of drugs - Conduct of accused at time of arrest, whether indicative of ‘knowledge’ of drugs - Whether ‘presumption of possession’ under s. 37(d) could be relied upon to invoke ‘presumption of trafficking’ under s. 37(da)
PP v. Lee Hock Lai
(KP Gengadharan Nair JC) [2004] 1 CLJ 57

Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 - Section 37(j) - Presumptions in analysis - ‘Ten per centum’ rule - Whether only applicable when substance suspected of being a dangerous drug is contained in a ‘number of receptacles’ - Whether rule refers to percentage of number of receptacles or percentage of content (weight) of receptacles - Whether a ‘plastic packet’ is a receptacle - Amount of substance to be analysed - Whether must be whole of substance (100%) in receptacle - Whether acceptable to analyse 10% of homogenised substance contained in receptacle
PP v. Lee Hock Lai
(KP Gengadharan Nair JC) [2004] 1 CLJ 57

Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 - Section 39B(1) - Trafficking in 99g of monoacetylmorphines - Prima facie case, whether made out - Presumption of trafficking under s. 37(da), whether ‘actual possession’ and ‘knowledge’ of drugs must be proved first - Whether ‘knowledge’ of drugs could be inferred from conduct of accused at time of arrest - Discrepancies in evidence respecting weight of seized substance - Whether drug-exhibits produced in court were the substance seized from accused - Safekeeping and photographing of seized substance by police, whether chain of evidence broken - Breach of ‘best evidence’ rule - Chemical analysis of substance - ‘Ten percentum’ rule - ‘Receptacles’ - Amount of substance to be analysed - Section 37(j)
PP v. Lee Hock Lai
(KP Gengadharan Nair JC) [2004] 1 CLJ 57

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Prima facie case - Maximum evaluation, meaning of - Whether prosecution’s evidence must be scrutinised properly and completely and not perfunctorily or cursorily - Whether doubts revealed in prosecution’s case - Whether defence could be called to clarify doubts in prosecution’s case
PP v. Lee Hock Lai
(KP Gengadharan Nair JC) [2004] 1 CLJ 57

DAMAGES

Fatal accident - Loss of earnings - Lost years - Whether allowable if deceased unemployed at time of death - Evidence respecting deceased’s personality and vocation - Civil Law Act 1956, s. 8
Lee Cheng Yee v. Tiu Soon Siang & Anor
(Mokhtar Sidin, Pajan Singh Gill & Rahmah Hussain JJCA) [2004] 1 CLJ 1

LABOUR LAW

Employment - Dismissal - Instruction of superior - Whether employee who doubts lawfulness of superior’s instruction must always ‘obey first and protest later’ - Whether ‘obey first, protest later’ rule still applies if employee has no doubt that superior’s order is manifestly unlawful - Employee falsely endorsing deeds of assignment - Whether negligence or misconduct justifying dismissal - Whether can rely on defence of ‘obedience to orders of superior’ - Consequence of defective domestic inquiry - Whether High Court exercised appellate jurisdiction
Ngeow Voon Yean v. Sungei Wang Plaza Sdn Bhd & Anor
(Mohd Noor Ahmad, Richard Malanjum & Hashim Yusoff JJCA) [2004] 1 CLJ 8

LIMITATION

Pleading - Fatal accident - Whether limitation must be specifically pleaded - Whether defendants could still rely on defence of limitation if not pleaded beforehand - When must limitation be pleaded - Whether only when limitation is not absolute - Whether limitation period prescribed by s. 7(5) Civil Law Act 1956 absolute - Plaintiff’s action brought more than three years after death
Lee Cheng Yee v. Tiu Soon Siang & Anor
(Mokhtar Sidin, Pajan Singh Gill & Rahmah Hussain JJCA) [2004] 1 CLJ 1

INDEKS PERKARA

PROSEDUR SIVIL

Afidavit - Kandungan - Prosiding interlokutori - Pernyataan maklumat atau kepercayaan - Sumber-sumber dan alasan - Penepian - Budi bicara mahkamah - Kaedah-Kaedah Mahkamah Tinggi 1980, A. 41 k. 5
Chong Peng Chong lwn. Chin Lean Fatt & Yang Lain
(VT Singham H) [2004] 1 CLJ 22

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