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CLJ Bulletin, Issue 2010, Vol 02

08 January 2010

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New This Week	1. Legal Network Series Articles
	2. CLJ Volume 1 (Part 2) 2010
	3. CLJ Volume 1 (Part 3) 2010

1. Legal Network Series Articles

1. Article 145(3) Of The Federal Constitution: A Formidable Discretion ^{[Read
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By Mohd Munzil Bin Muhamad; Postgraduate Student (LLM) of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

2. CLJ Volume 1 (Part 2) 2010

COURT

FEDERAL COURT

Lombard Commodities Ltd v. Alami Vegetable Oil Products Sdn Bhd
(Award - Enforcement - English award - No Gazette Notification) [2010] 1 CLJ 137

Yong Teck Lee v. Harris Mohd Salleh & Anor
(Costs - Taxation - Getting-up fee) [2010] 1 CLJ 156

COURT OF APPEAL

Lee Thye v. Societe Generale Cawangan Singapura
(Appeal - Adducing fresh evidence) [2010] 1 CLJ 170

PP lwn. Sulaiman Saidin
(Dadah Berbahaya - Seksyen 39B(1)(a) - Kegagalan pihak pendakwa memanggil pemberi maklumat) [2010] 1 CLJ 184

Tang Meng Hock v. Tang Ming Seng
(Contract - Consideration - Natural love and affection) [2010] 1 CLJ 208

HIGH COURT

Malayan Banking Bhd v. Hjh Suzainah Abdullah
(Banking - Guarantee and indemnity - Enforcement of) [2010] 1 CLJ 229

PP lwn. Chan Keang Lean
(Semakan - Semakan saman s. 51 Kanun Tatacara Jenayah) [2010] 1 CLJ 239

Siti Juriah Sahari & Yang Lain lwn. Citibank Bhd & Satu Lagi
(Kemudahan pinjaman - Sama ada bank wajar membatalkan kemudahan memandangkan surat akujanji) [2010] 1 CLJ 252

SUBJECT INDEX

ARBITRATION

Award - Enforcement - English award - No Gazette Notification declaring United Kingdom a party to New York Convention - Whether award enforceable in Malaysia - Whether gazette notification a mandatory requirement or merely evidentiary in nature - Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards Act 1985, ss. 2(2), 4(b)
Lombard Commodities Ltd v. Alami Vegetable Oil Products Sdn Bhd
(Arifin Zakaria CJ (Malaya), Hashim Yusoff & Gopal Sri Ram FCJJ) [2010] 1 CLJ 137 [FC]

BANKING

Guarantee and indemnity - Enforcement of - Judgment obtained against borrower company - Whether guarantor bound by terms of judgment although case against guarantor dismissed - Whether action time-barred - Whether res judicata - Whether abuse of court's process - Specific Relief Act 1950, ss. 34, 41
Malayan Banking Bhd v. Hjh Suzainah Abdullah
(Vernon Ong Lam Kiat JC) [2010] 1 CLJ 229 [HC]

CIVIL PROCEDURE

Action - Guarantee - Enforcement of - Judgment obtained against borrower company - Whether guarantor bound by terms of judgment although case against guarantor dismissed - Whether action time-barred - Whether res judicata - Whether abuse of court's process - Specific Relief Act 1950, ss. 34, 41
Malayan Banking Bhd v. Hjh Suzainah Abdullah
(Vernon Ong Lam Kiat JC) [2010] 1 CLJ 229 [HC]

Appeal - Adducing fresh evidence - Affidavit raising new defence of illegality - Whether evidence available at hearing - Whether evidence would have influenced court's decision - Conditions applicable - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 56 r. 1(3A)
Lee Thye v. Societe Generale Cawangan Singapura
(Mohd Ghazali Yusoff FCJ, Abu Samah Nordin & Sulaiman Daud JJCA) [2010] 1 CLJ 170 [CA]

Costs - Taxation - Getting-up fee - Respondent's costs for applicant's unsuccessful leave application in Federal Court - Refusal of Deputy Registrar of Federal Court to revise amount awarded - Application to a Judge of Federal Court for review - Court will interfere with decision of taxing officer only if discretion exercised based on some wrong principle or quantum allowed is obviously wrong - Failure by Deputy Registrar to consider relevant facts and drawing of wrong inferences - Amount awarded manifestly inadequate and grossly insufficient - Whether getting-up fees in leave application to Federal Court not to be equated to costs awarded for getting-up in interlocutory application filed in High Court - Whether sum of RM100,000 fair and reasonable compared to RM16,000 awarded
Yong Teck Lee v. Harris Mohd Salleh & Anor
(James Foong FCJ) [2010] 1 CLJ 156 [FC]

CONTRACT

Consideration - Natural love and affection - Whether can constitute good consideration - Principles applicable - Contracts Act 1950, s. 26
Tang Meng Hock v. Tang Ming Seng
(Low Hop Bing, Heliliah Mohd Yusof & Abdul Malik Ishak JJCA) [2010] 1 CLJ 208 [CA]

Interpretation - Intention of parties - Meaning to be given to words - Natural and ordinary meaning - Whether words ambiguous - Whether words capable of more than one meaning
Tang Meng Hock v. Tang Ming Seng
(Low Hop Bing, Heliliah Mohd Yusof & Abdul Malik Ishak JJCA) [2010] 1 CLJ 208 [CA]

INDEKS PERKARA

DADAH BERBAHAYA

Seksyen 39B(1)(a) - Pengedaran - Sama ada kes berasaskan pengedaran melalui jualan - Sama ada hakim bicara tersalah arah memakai s. 37(d) Akta - Sama ada tertuduh "innocent carrier" - Sama ada kegagalan pihak pendakwa memanggil pemberi maklumat menyebabkan lompang besar dalam kes pendakwaan - Sama ada hakim bicara menggunakan alasan-alasan sama membebaskan dan melepaskan tertuduh selepas kes dikembalikan untuk perbicaraan
PP lwn. Sulaiman Saidin
(Low Hop Bing, Hasan Lah & Sulaiman Daud HHMR) [2010] 1 CLJ 184 [CA]

PROSEDUR JENAYAH

Semakan - Semakan saman yang dikeluarkan hakim sesyen di bawah s. 51 Kanun Tatacara Jenayah - Saman memerintahkan ahli kimia menyerahkan laporan kimia kes berkaitan sebelum tarikh ditetapkan di mana kegagalan berbuat demikian mengakibatkan waran tangkap dikeluarkan - Sama ada hakim sesyen terkhilaf mengeluarkan saman - Kanun Tatacara Jenayah, ss. 51A, 325, 399
PP lwn. Chan Keang Lean
(Yaacob Md Sam PK) [2010] 1 CLJ 239 [HC]

UNDANG-UNDANG TANAH

Jual beli hartanah - Kemudahan pinjaman - Kemudahan dibatalkan kerana pembeli memalsukan penyata akaun bagi menyokong permohonan pinjaman - Sama ada bank wajar membatalkan kemudahan memandangkan surat akujanji yang dikeluarkan kepada pembeli
Siti Juriah Sahari & Yang Lain lwn. Citibank Bhd & Satu Lagi
(Kamardin Hashim PK) [2010] 1 CLJ 252 [HC]

URUSAN BANK

Kemudahan pinjaman - Jual beli hartanah - Kemudahan dibatalkan kerana pembeli memalsukan penyata akaun bagi menyokong permohonan pinjaman - Sama ada bank wajar membatalkan kemudahan memandangkan surat akujanji yang dikeluarkan kepada pembeli
Siti Juriah Sahari & Yang Lain lwn. Citibank Bhd & Satu Lagi
(Kamardin Hashim PK) [2010] 1 CLJ 252 [HC]

3. CLJ Volume 1 (Part 3) 2010

COURT

FEDERAL COURT

Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd v. M-Concept Sdn Bhd
(Breach - Building contract) [2010] 1 CLJ 269

Darma Suria Risman Saleh v. Menteri Dalam Negeri, Malaysia & Ors
(Preventive Detention - Detention order - Habeas corpus) [2010] 1 CLJ 300

COURT OF APPEAL

Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd v. M-Concept Sdn Bhd
(Rescission - Building contract) [2010] 1 CLJ 309

Jefri Ibrahim lwn. PP
(Undang-Undang Jenayah - Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Seksyen 39B(1)(a)) [2010] 1 CLJ 332

Proton Parts Centre Sdn Bhd v. Mohamed Zainal & Another Appeal
(Striking out - Claims - Application for) [2010] 1 CLJ 348

HIGH COURT

Chong Chieng Jen v. Mohd Irwan Hafiz Md Radzi & Anor
(Criminal Procedure - Search warrant - Issuance of) [2010] 1 CLJ 355

Omsivanesan Munisamy lwn. Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri, Malaysia & Satu Lagi
(Tahanan Pencegahan - Tahanan - Habeas corpus) [2010] 1 CLJ 363

Re Teh Siew Fah; Ex p Perwira Habib Bank Malaysia Bhd
(Bankruptcy - Bankruptcy notice - Validity) [2010] 1 CLJ 375

SUBJECT INDEX

BANKRUPTCY

Bankruptcy notice - Validity - Amount in notice not yet due and payable - Whether a fatal flaw - Whether notice invalid and a nullity ab initio
Re Teh Siew Fah; Ex p Perwira Habib Bank Malaysia Bhd
(Mary Lim JC) [2010] 1 CLJ 375 [HC]

Receiving and adjudicating orders - Setting aside - Application for - Whether bankruptcy notice a nullity ab initio - Delay of 20 years in making application - Whether immaterial - Whether creditor prejudiced
Re Teh Siew Fah; Ex p Perwira Habib Bank Malaysia Bhd
(Mary Lim JC) [2010] 1 CLJ 375 [HC]

CIVIL PROCEDURE

Striking out - Claims - Application for - Whether plaintiff's claim disclosed reasonable cause of action - Whether there was cause of action in slander - Whether there was basis for second and third defendants to be made parties to proceedings - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 18 r. 19(1)(a)
Proton Parts Centre Sdn Bhd v. Mohamed Zainal & Another Appeal
(Raus Sharif, Sulong Matjeraie & Hishamudin Mohd Yunus JJCA) [2010] 1 CLJ 348 [CA]

CONTRACT

Breach - Building contract - Agreement for sale of shop-lot in building - Vendor unable to deliver vacant possession by specified time - Whether purchaser entitled to rescind agreement, recover moneys paid and claim damages - Whether claim for liquidated damages for late delivery disentitled purchaser from rescinding agreement - No provision on rescission in agreement, whether consequential - Purchaser continuing to make instalment payments, whether a waiver of right to rescission - Contracts Act 1950, s. 56(1)
Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd v. M-Concept Sdn Bhd
(Zulkefli Makinudin, Gopal Sri Ram & Mohd Ghazali Yusoff FCJJ) [2010] 1 CLJ 269 [FC]

Breach - Building contract - Agreement for sale of shop-lot in building - Vendor unable to deliver vacant possession by specified time - Whether purchaser entitled to rescind agreement, recover moneys paid and claim damages - Whether provision for liquidated damages for late delivery disentitled purchaser from rescinding agreement - No provision on rescission in agreement, whether consequential - Purchaser continuing to make instalment payments, whether a waiver of right to rescission - Contracts Act 1950, s. 56(1)
Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd v. M-Concept Sdn Bhd
(Zaleha Zahari, Raus Sharif & Abdul Malik Ishak JJCA) [2010] 1 CLJ 309 [CA]

Breach - Consequences, of - Option of innocent party whether to accept repudiation - Right of innocent party to terminate contract where breach goes to root of contract - Contract cannot be terminated where there is part performance by defaulting party - Breach of contract does not render it voidable - Termination of contract only ends future obligations - Past rights and duties remain unaffected - Equitable remedy of rescission not available where contract is breached - Common law right of rescission only in cases of total failure of consideration - Contracts Act 1950, s. 40
Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd v. M-Concept Sdn Bhd
(Zulkefli Makinudin, Gopal Sri Ram & Mohd Ghazali Yusoff FCJJ) [2010] 1 CLJ 269 [FC]

Rescission - Building contract - Agreement for sale of shop-lot in building - Vendor unable to deliver vacant possession by specified time - Whether time of essence of agreement - Whether purchaser entitled to rescind agreement, recover moneys paid and claim damages - Whether claim for liquidated damages for late delivery disentitled purchaser from rescinding agreement - No provision on rescission in agreement, whether consequential - Purchaser continuing to make instalment payments, whether a waiver of right to rescission - Whether purchaser stopped from rescinding agreement - Contracts Act 1950, s. 56(1)
Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd v. M-Concept Sdn Bhd
(Zulkefli Makinudin, Gopal Sri Ram & Mohd Ghazali Yusoff FCJJ) [2010] 1 CLJ 269 [FC]

Rescission - Building contract - Agreement for sale of shop-lot in building - Vendor unable to deliver vacant possession by specified time - Whether time of essence of agreement - Whether purchaser entitled to rescind agreement, recover moneys paid and claim damages - Whether provision for liquidated damages for late delivery disentitled purchaser from rescinding agreement - No provision on rescission in agreement, whether consequential - Purchaser continuing to make instalment payments, whether a waiver of right to rescission - Whether purchaser stopped from rescinding agreement - Contracts Act 1950, s. 56(1)
Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd v. M-Concept Sdn Bhd
(Zaleha Zahari, Raus Sharif & Abdul Malik Ishak JJCA) [2010] 1 CLJ 309 [CA]

Rescission - Consequences, of - Contracts Act 1950 s. 65 - Option of innocent party to rescind contract and sue for damages - Outstanding obligations need no longer be performed by either party
Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd v. M-Concept Sdn Bhd
(Zaleha Zahari, Raus Sharif & Abdul Malik Ishak JJCA) [2010] 1 CLJ 309 [CA]

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Search warrant - Issuance of - Setting aside - Application for - Criminal Procedure Code, s. 56 - Whether there was non-compliance of - Whether infringed - Whether search warrants unlawfully issued and should be set aside
Chong Chieng Jen v. Mohd Irwan Hafiz Md Radzi & Anor
(Rodzariah Bujang JC) [2010] 1 CLJ 355 [HC]

EQUITY

Maxims of equity - He who comes into equity must come with clean hands - Whether conformed with - Whether party in breach of contract can claim innocent party estopped from rescinding contract
Berjaya Times Square Sdn Bhd v. M-Concept Sdn Bhd
(Zaleha Zahari, Raus Sharif & Abdul Malik Ishak JJCA) [2010] 1 CLJ 309 [CA]

PREVENTIVE DETENTION

Detention order - Habeas corpus - Application for - Whether appellant's activity constituted an act prejudicial to public order - Whether Minister committed error in law in making detention order - Whether High Court correct in declining habeas corpus - Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance 1969
Darma Suria Risman Saleh v. Menteri Dalam Negeri, Malaysia & Ors
(Zaki Tun Azmi CJ, Zulkefli Makinudin & Gopal Sri Ram FCJJ) [2010] 1 CLJ 300 [FC]

TORT

Defamation - Slander - Allegation of - Whether preventing plaintiff from entering premises amount to tort of slander - Defamatory words - Whether uttered - Whether conduct of person amounted to slander - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 18 r. 19(1)(a)
Proton Parts Centre Sdn Bhd v. Mohamed Zainal & Another Appeal
(Raus Sharif, Sulong Matjeraie & Hishamudin Mohd Yunus JJCA) [2010] 1 CLJ 348 [CA]

INDEKS PERKARA

TAHANAN PENCEGAHAN

Tahanan - Habeas corpus - Permohonan - Sama ada perlanggaran s. 6(1) Akta Dadah Berbahaya (Langkah-Langkah Pencegahan Khas) 1985 - Sama ada wujud ketidakpatuhan per. 151(1)(a) Perlembagaan Persekutuan - Kaedah-Kaedah Dadah Berbahaya (Langkah-Langkah Pencegahan Khas) (Prosedur Lembaga Penasihat) 1987 - Sama ada permohonan ditolak
Omsivanesan Munisamy lwn. Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri, Malaysia & Satu Lagi
(Umi Kalthum Majid PK) [2010] 1 CLJ 363 [HC]

UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH

Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Seksyen 39B(1)(a) - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman - Sama ada perayu mempunyai pengetahuan kewujudan dadah - Milikan mes rea - Sama ada terbukti - Keputusan afirmatif - Sama ada dibuat oleh hakim bicara - Sama ada perayu gagal menyanggal anggapan pengedaran di bawah s. 37(da) Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Sama ada keterangan perayu gagal menimbulkan keraguan munasabah terhadap kes pendakwaan - Sama ada hakim bicara khilaf dari segi penemuan fakta dan pemakaian prinsip undang-undang oleh hakim bicara
Jefri Ibrahim lwn. PP
(Abdull Hamid Embong, Wan Adnan Muhamad & Jeffrey Tan HHMR) [2010] 1 CLJ 332 [CA]

CASE OF THE WEEK

TAKAKO SAKAO v. NG PEK YUEN & ANOR

COMPANY LAW: Corporate personality - Corporate veil - Piercing of - Circumstances when corporate veil may be pierced

CONTRACT: Privity of contract - Trusts - Whether trusts an exception to the common law rule of privity of contract

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Appeal - Fact, findings of - Concurrent findings of fact by trial and intermediate appellate court - Whether there was unwarranted deduction based on faulty judicial reasoning from admitted and established facts - Whether miscarriage of justice occasioned - Whether concurrent findings rule of practice ought to apply

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Trial - Defendant fully conversant with facts but refusing to attend court and give evidence - Consequences of - Whether evidence given by plaintiff ought to be presumed to be true - Whether adverse inference ought to be drawn against defendant - Whether defendant's failure to appear and give evidence at trial discredited defendant's case and strengthened plaintiff's case - Whether trial judge's failure to consider effects of defendant's failure to attend court and give evidence constituted a misdirection occasioning a miscarriage of justice

EQUITY: Equitable remedies and reliefs - Constructive trust - Tracing - Plaintiff and defendant agreeing to purchase property for business venture - Mutual understanding between plaintiff and defendant that property to be registered in joint names and held in equal shares - Plaintiff contributing towards purchase price - Defendant acquiring and registering property in her sole name and denying plaintiff's right to the property - Whether constructive trust over property created - Whether defendant held property on a constructive trust for the plaintiff - Whether plaintiff entitled to trace her share of the property - Whether equitable for plaintiff to do so

EQUITY: Equitable remedies and reliefs - Specific performance - Plaintiff and defendant agreeing to purchase property for business venture - Mutual understanding between plaintiff and defendant that property to be registered in joint names and held in equal shares - Defendant acquiring, registering property in her sole name and subsequently selling property to third party - Third party not a bona fide purchaser - Whether constructive trust over property created - Whether agreement may be specifically enforced against third party - Whether doctrine of privity of contract applicable - Specific Relief Act 1950, s. 26(b)

EQUITY: Fraud in equity - Elements of - Whether intention to deceive a necessary ingredient in equitable fraud

EVIDENCE: Adverse inference - Refusal of defendant to testify on own behalf - Consequences of

EVIDENCE: Appeal - Interfering with findings of fact - Concurrent findings of fact by trial and intermediate appellate court - Whether there was unwarranted deduction based on faulty judicial reasoning from admitted and established facts - Whether miscarriage of justice occasioned - Whether concurrent findings rule of practice ought to apply

EVIDENCE: Course of trial - Refusal to give evidence - Defendant fully conversant with facts but refusing to attend court and give evidence - Consequences of

LAND LAW: Ownership - Restrictions in respect of non-citizens for purchase of property - Constructive trust created over property in favour of non-citizen beneficiary - Whether prior approval of State Authority required - Whether s. 433B of the National Land Code applied to constructive trusts - Whether s. 433B of the National Land Code applied only to express trusts registered under s. 344 of the National Land Code

PARTNERSHIP: Duties - Good faith - Mutual understanding between partners to purchase and register property in their joint names - Mutual understanding that property to be held in equal shares - One partner acquiring and registering property in her sole name and denying the other's right to a half share in the property - Whether former partner breaching fiduciary duties owed to the latter partner - Whether former partner guilty of equitable fraud in relation to the latter's interest in the property

TRUSTS: Constructive trust - Circumstances when such a trust would arise - Role of equity in constructive trusts - Rights of beneficiaries under a constructive trust

TRUSTS: Constructive trust - Property - Plaintiff and defendant agreeing to purchase property for business venture - Mutual understanding between plaintiff and defendant that property to be registered in joint names and held in equal shares - Plaintiff contributing towards purchase price - Defendant acquiring and registering property in her sole name and denying plaintiff's right to the property - Whether constructive trust over property created - Whether defendant held property on a constructive trust for the plaintiff

TRUSTS: Resulting trust - Circumstances when such a trust would arise - Primary function of court where a resulting trust is asserted - Whether court should begin by resorting to presumptions - Whether court should first meticulously examine the facts to objectively ascertain true intention of the parties

WORDS AND PHRASES: 'created in favour of any person or body as "trustee"' - National Land Code, s. 433B - Whether such words referred to constructive trusts - Whether such words referred to express trusts registered under s. 344 of the National Land Code

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