CLJ Bulletin, Issue 2012, Vol 9

                                                                                                                                                                                                           2 March 2012

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New This Week 1. Case Of The Week
2. Latest Cases
    a) Legal Network Series
    b) CLJ Volume 1 (Part 7) 2012
3. Articles
      a) Legal Network Series Articles
4. Legislation Highlights

CASE OF THE WEEK

TAHAN STEEL CORPORATION SDN BHD v. BANK ISLAM MALAYSIA BHD

BANKING: Banks and banking business - Islamic banking - Repudiatory breach of Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements by bank - Failure of borrower to prove damages arising from breach - Whether only nominal damages to be awarded - Whether security documents formed part of the Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements - Whether termination of the Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements rendered the security documents being discharged or cancelled - Whether bank's repudiatory breach absolved borrower from liability to repay the loan facility

CONTRACT: Breach - Damages - Nominal damages - Repudiatory breach of Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements by bank - Failure of borrower to prove damages arising from breach - Whether only nominal damages to be awarded

CONTRACT: Breach - Fundamental breach - Islamic banking - Repudiatory breach of Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements by bank - Failure of borrower to prove damages arising from breach - Whether only nominal damages to be awarded - Whether security documents formed part of the Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements - Whether termination of the Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements rendered the security documents being discharged or cancelled - Whether bank's repudiatory breach absolved borrower from liability to repay the loan facility

EVIDENCE: Witness - Credibility - Assessment of credibility and demeanor of witness - Whether appellate interference required - Whether findings are clearly wrong or erroneous - Whether trial Judge had not considered relevant matters or had taken into account irrelevant matters

ISLAMIC LAW: Islamic banking - Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements - Repudiatory breach of Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements by bank - Failure of borrower to prove damages arising from breach - Whether only nominal damages to be awarded - Whether security documents formed part of the Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements - Whether termination of the Al-Istisnaa' facility agreements rendered the security documents being discharged or cancelled - Whether bank's repudiatory breach absolved borrower from liability to repay the loan facility


2. Latest Cases

a) Legal Network Series

CITATION TITLE SUBJECT
[2009] 1 LNS 1361 [HC] PP v. Ramesh Kelianan

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Prosecution - Prosecution's case unsatisfactory - Material contradiction between SP2's oral evidence in court and the search list issued by him - No photograph to corroborate SP2's oral evidence that newspaper package was found in accused's under pants - Whether reasonable doubt created as to whether accused had custody, control and knowledge of dangerous drugs - Omission to state newspaper package was found in accused's under pants - Under pants not produced for SP2's identification - Whether serious doubts as to whether newspaper package was found tucked in accused's under pants or actually found elsewhere

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Prosecution - Prosecution's case - Names of police officers involved as stated in search list, P7, differed from police report, P9 - Only 1 common name - Unexplained failure of prosecution to supply copy of search list to defence - Whether breach of s. 51A of the Criminal Procedure Code - Failure by prosecution to call police officer as witness instead of merely offering him to the defence at the close of prosecution's case - Whether serious doubts created concerning truth of prosecution's case

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Prosecution - Prima facie case - Whether prosecution had succeeded in establishing that accused had custody, control and knowledge of the dangerous drugs - Whether accused should be called upon to enter on his defence

[2009] 1 LNS 1362 [HC] Tan Boon Wah v. Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan & Ors

EVIDENCE: Statement - Statement of witness - Two conflicting versions of circumstances leading to plaintiff's presence at Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) office - Plaintiff interrogated at night until early hours of the morning - Whether he was unlawfully detained beyond office hours at the MACC Headquarters on relevant dates - Whether permissible in law for plaintiff to have his statement recorded as a witness outside of MACC's normal office hours

STATUTORY INTERPRETATION: Construction of statutes - Ambiguity - Intention of Parliament - "day to day" - Not defined in Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 - Whether a witness is only to be examined by MACC during normal office hours - Whether round-the-clock interrogation permitted

[2010] 1 LNS 506 [HC] Samuel Chung Khiong Nee v. Amanah Raya Berhad & Anor

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Injunction - Application for - 1st defendant to be restrained from issuing letters of administration to elder brother - Whether plaintiff's action ought to be dismissed as 1st defendant's decision to appoint 2nd defendant as administrator was only to be questioned by way of judicial review - Whether an injunction could lie against 1st defendant or its officers from exercising their powers under the Administration of Estates Ordinance of Sarawak - Probate officer yet to issue letters of administration but decision already made that 2nd defendant should be administrator - Whether anything left for the Court to injunct - Whether plaintiff's action premature and wrongly instituted

[2010] 1 LNS 904 [HC] Subramaniam Paramasivam v. Courts Mammoth Berhad & Anor

TORT: Defamation - Meaning of words - Words in Letter of Termination and Letter of Complaint - Plaintiff referred to by name - Whether words defamatory in nature of plaintiff as an advocate and solicitor

TORT: Defamation - Publication - Letter of Complaint written by defendants to the Advocates & Solicitors Disciplinary Board - Whether there was publication to third party

TORT: Defamation - Qualified privilege - Malice - Failure by plaintiff to file a reply to the defence and to plead malice as an answer to the defence of privilege - O . 78 r. 3 of the Rules of the High Court 1980 - Whether plaintiff failed to successfully invoke malice as an answer to the defence of privilege

TORT: Defamation - Complaint dismissed by Advocates & Solicitors' Disciplinary Board - Many requests made for information and accounts - Tardiness of plaintiff - Whether defendants had a bona fide grievance at the time Letter of Termination and Letter of Complaint were issued - Whether a complaint to the Advocates & Solicitors' Disciplinary Board provided a cause of action by its dismissal

[2010] 1 LNS 1164 [HC] Ernest Cheong Yong Yin v. Kamariyah Hamdan & Ors

EVIDENCE: Privilege - Legal professional privilege - Invoice sent by plaintiff's previous solicitors to plaintiff to pay fees for professional services - Invoice not containing any advice or confidential communication between plaintiff and his previous solicitors - Whether invoice was a privileged document under s. 126 of the Evidence Act 1950 - Whether there was any breach committed by defendants in respect of s. 126 of the Evidence Act, 1950

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b. CLJ Volume 1 (Part 7) 2012

COURT

FEDERAL COURT

Ahli-ahli Suruhanjaya Yang Membentuk Suruhanjaya Siasatan Mengenai Rakaman Klip Video Yang Mengandungi Imej Seorang Yang Dikatakan Peguambela Dan Peguamcara Berbual Melalui Telefon Mengenai Urusan Pelantikan Hakim-Hakim v. Tun Dato' Seri Ahmad Fairuz Dato' Sheikh Abdul Halim & Other Appeal
Zulkefli Makinudin, Raus Sharif, Abdull Hamid Embong FCJJ
(Administrative Law - Judicial review - Remedies - Certiorari - Application to quash findings of the Royal Commission of Enquiry) [2012] 1 CLJ 805 [FC]

COURT OF APPEAL

Datuk Justine Jinggut v. Pendaftar Pertubuhan
Zainun Ali, Ramly Ali, Zaharah Ibrahim JJCA
(Unincorporated Associations - Societies - Political party - Sarawak National Party (SNAP) de-registered by Registrar of Societies - Whether Registrar's decision to de-register party arbitrary, ultra  vires and void) [2012] 1 CLJ 825 [CA]

Khalil Anuar Sukirman lwn. PP
Ahmad Maarop, Clement Skinner, Azahar Mohamed HHMR
(Undang-undang Jenayah - Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Seksyen 37(da) - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman mati) [2012] 1 CLJ 848 [CA]

PP v. Surani Muhammad Tamsir
Hasan Lah, Sulong Matjeraie, Sulaiman Daud HHMR
(Undang-undang Jenayah; Keterangan - Kanun Keseksaan - Seksyen 84 - Responden dituduh membunuh ayahnya di bawah s. 302) [2012] 1 CLJ 862 [CA]

HIGH COURT

Govindasamy Muthulingam v. Ooi Kee Chye & Anor
Chew Soo Ho JC
(Civil Procedure; Land Law - Indefeasibility of title and interests - Registration - Effect of) [2012] 1 CLJ 875 [HC]

PP lwn. Jaafar Ghazali & Yang Lain
Asmabi Mohamad PK
(Undang-undang Jenayah; Keterangan - Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Seksyen 39B(1)(a) - Pengedaran) [2012] 1 CLJ 893 [HC]

Salmah Omar & Ors v. Ahmad Rosli Aziz
Zakaria Sam J
(Land Law - Ownership - Title to land - Doctrine of right of survivorship) [2012] 1 CLJ 923 [HC]

SUBJECT INDEX

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Judicial review - Remedies - Certiorari - Application to quash findings of the Royal Commission of Enquiry set up under s. 2 of the Commission of Enquiry Act 1950 - Whether findings and recommendations reviewable under O. 53 r. 2(4) Rules of the High Court 1980 - Whether against public policy to allow findings of Commission to be challenged in the courts
Ahli-ahli Suruhanjaya Yang Membentuk Suruhanjaya Siasatan Mengenai Rakaman Klip Video Yang Mengandungi Imej Seorang Yang Dikatakan Peguambela Dan Peguamcara Berbual Melalui Telefon Mengenai Urusan Pelantikan Hakim-Hakim v. Tun Dato' Seri Ahmad Fairuz Dato' Sheikh Abdul Halim & Other Appeals
(Zulkefli Makinudin, Raus Sharif, Abdull Hamid Embong FCJJ) [2012] 1 CLJ 805 [FC]

CIVIL PROCEDURE

Pleadings - Fraud - Failure to plead - Whether constituted fundamental flaw in pleadings - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 18 r. 12(1)
Govindasamy Muthulingam v. Ooi Kee Chye & Anor
(Chew Soo Ho JC) [2012] 1 CLJ 875 [HC]

LAND LAW

Indefeasibility of title and interests - Registration - Conferment of ownership - Whether local authority had power to confer ownership of land and title - Whether payment of assessment rates constituted proof of title
Govindasamy Muthulingam v. Ooi Kee Chye & Anor
(Chew Soo Ho JC) [2012] 1 CLJ 875 [HC]

Indefeasibility of title and interests - Registration - Effect of - Whether registration defeated all prior unregistered claims - Whether circumstances under s. 340(2) of the National Land Code proved to defeat registration - National Land Code, s. 340(1), (2), (3)
Govindasamy Muthulingam v. Ooi Kee Chye & Anor
(Chew Soo Ho JC) [2012] 1 CLJ 875 [HC]

LAND LAW

Ownership - Title to land - Doctrine of right of survivorship - Whether applicable to Muslim inhabitants of Straits Settlement - Whether Muslim's wealth to be distributed according to Faraid laws - Civil Law Act 1956, proviso to s. 3
Salmah Omar & Ors v. Ahmad Rosli Aziz (Pentadbir Harta Pesaka Osman Mohamed, Si Mati) & Anor
(Zakaria Sam J) [2012] 1 CLJ 923 [HC]

Unincorporated Associations Societies - Political party - Sarawak National Party (SNAP) de-registered by Registrar of Societies - Registrar opined dispute existed in party due to actions of rebel group - All actions by rebel group ultra vires and invalid - Whether Registrar's decision to de-register party arbitrary, ultra vires and void - Documents relied on by Registrar in coming to decision not divulged to appellant - Whether breach of natural justice - Reason for decision not given - Whether breach of procedural fairness - Societies Act 1966, ss. 13(1), (2) and 16(1)
Datuk Justine Jinggut v. Pendaftar Pertubuhan
(Zainun Ali, Ramly Ali, Zaharah Ibrahim JJCA) [2012] 1 CLJ 825 [CA]

INDEK PERKARA

KETERANGAN

Keterangan pakar - Percanggahan keterangan - Sama ada mahkamah boleh memilih atau menolak keterangan pakar - Hilang akal - Sama ada persoalan fakta atau ditentukan melalui ujian perubatan
PP lwn. Surani Muhammad Tamsir
(Hasan Lah, Sulong Matjeraie, Sulaiman Daud HHMR) [2012] 1 CLJ 862 [CA]

Pembunuhan - Pembelaan - Responden dituduh membunuh ayahnya - Hilang akal - Sama ada persoalan fakta atau ditentukan melalui ujian perubatan - Sama ada responden waras semasa kejadian - Perbezaan antara fahaman hilang akal di sisi undang-undang dan kaedah perubatan - Sama ada keterangan pakar bercanggah - Sama ada mahkamah boleh memilih atau menolak keterangan pakar - Sama ada hakim perbicaraan khilaf dari segi undang-undang - Kanun Keseksaan, s. 84
PP lwn. Surani Muhammad Tamsir
(Hasan Lah, Sulong Matjeraie, Sulaiman Daud HHMR) [2012] 1 CLJ 862 [CA]

Saksi - Kegagalan mengemukakan saksi - Akta Keterangan 1950, s. 114(g) - Sama ada wujudnya anggapan yang bertentangan
PP lwn. Jaafar Ghazali & Yang Lain
(Asmabi Mohamad PK) [2012] 1 CLJ 893 [HC]

UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH

Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Seksyen 37(da) - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman mati atas anggapan pengedaran dadah berbahaya - Sama ada hakim bicara terkhilaf memutuskan pihak pendakwa telah membuktikan tertuduh mempunyai milikan sebenar dadah berbahaya - Sama ada keterangan menunjukkan bahawa orang lain ada akses terhadap dadah berbahaya selain daripada tertuduh - Sama ada inferens tertuduh mempunyai milikan sebenar boleh dibuat jikapun tertuduh bukan pemilik motosikal yang dipandunya di mana dadah berbahaya dijumpai - Sama ada hakim bicara gagal mempertimbangkan kesahihan pembelaan tertuduh
Khalil Anuar Sukirman lwn. PP
(Ahmad Maarop, Clement Skinner, Azahar Mohamed HHMR) [2012] 1 CLJ 848 [CA]

Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Seksyen 39B(1)(a) - Pengedaran - Mengedar 12,130 gram cannabis - Sama ada intipati penjualan dadah dibuktikan - Sama ada penyerahan sebenar dadah dibuktikan - Penangkapan awal tertuduh - Sama ada terdapat keraguan dalam rantaian transaksi jual beli - Sama ada terdapat penyerahan sebenar dadah kepada pembeli - Sama ada pemilikan kereta di mana dadah dijumpai dibuktikan - Anggapan pemilikan - Seksyen 37(d) - Sama ada tertuduh mempunyai pengetahuan bahawa dadah berada dalam kereta - Kegagalan mengemukakan saksi - Akta Keterangan 1950, s. 114(g) - Sama ada terpakai - Sama ada kes prima facie dibuktikan
PP lwn. Jaafar Ghazali & Yang Lain
(Asmabi Mohamad PK) [2012] 1 CLJ 893 [HC]

Kanun Keseksaan - Seksyen 84 - Responden dituduh membunuh ayahnya di bawah s. 302 - Sama ada responden waras semasa kejadian - Perbezaan antara fahaman hilang akal di sisi undang-undang dan kaedah perubatan - Sama ada keterangan pakar bercanggah - Sama ada mahkamah boleh memilih atau menolak keterangan pakar - Hilang akal - Sama ada persoalan fakta atau ditentukan melalui ujian perubatan - Sama ada hakim perbicaraan khilaf dari segi undang-undang
PP lwn. Surani Muhammad Tamsir
(Hasan Lah, Sulong Matjeraie, Sulaiman Daud HHMR) [2012] 1 CLJ 862 [CA]

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3. Articles

a) Legal Network Series Articles

1. Legal Approach To Domestic Violence In Malaysia And Nigeria: An Expository Study Of The Experience In Selected Jurisdictions [Read excerpt]
By Abdulfatai O. Sambo*, Abdulkadir B. Abdulkadir**

2. Current Judicial Review & Appeals In Industrial Relations Disputes - Unfairness Of The Highest Order To The Workman [Read excerpt]
By Guru Dhillon*

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4. Legislation Highlights

a) Principal Acts

NUMBER

TITLE

DATE COMING INTO FORCE

REPEALING

ACT 739 Perumahan Rakyat 1Malaysia Act 2012 Not Yet In Force - Nil -
ACT 740 Veterans Act 2012 Not Yet In Force - Nil -
ACT 741 Postal Services Act 2012 Not Yet In Force - Nil -
ACT 742 Finance Act 2012 See sections 3, 26, 30, 32 and 35 of Act 742 respectively - Nil -
ACT 743 Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2012 Not Yet In Force - Nil -

b) Amending Acts

NUMBER

TITLE

DATE COMING INTO FORCE

PRINCIPAL / AMENDING ACT NO

ACT A1420 Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012 1 March 2012 [PU(B) 058/2012] ACT 332
ACT A1421 Police (Amendment) Act 2012 Not Yet In Force ACT 344
ACT A1422 Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act 2010 (Amendment) Act 2012 Not Yet In Force ACT 593
ACT A1423 Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act 2012 Not Yet In Force ACT 593
ACT A1424 Evidence (Amendment) Act 2012 Not Yet In Force ACT 56
ACT A1425 Standards Of Malaysia (Amendment) Act 2012 Not Yet In Force ACT 549

c) PU(A)

NUMBER TITLE DATE COMING INTO FORCE

PRINCIPAL / AMENDING ACT NO

PU(A) 045/2012 Co-Operative Societies (Koperasi Permodalan Felda Malaysia Berhad) (Exemption) Order 2012 17 February 2012 ACT 502
PU(A) 046/2012 Customs (Values) (Palm Oil) (No 8) Order 2012 20 February 2012 ACT 235
PU(A) 047/2012 Customs (Values) (Crude Petroleum Oil) (No 4) Order 2012 20 February 2012 ACT 235
PU(A) 048/2012 Proclamation - By His Majesty The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong, By The Grace Of Allah, Supreme Head Of The States And Territories Of Malaysia 21 February 2012 -
PU(A) 049/2012 Proclamation - By His Majesty The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong, By The Grace Of Allah, Supreme Head Of The States And Territories Of Malaysia 21 February 2012 -

d) PU(B)

NUMBER TITLE DATE COMING INTO FORCE

PRINCIPAL / AMENDING ACT NO

PU(B) 054/2012 Appointment Of Protection Officers Of The Anti-Trafficking In Persons And Anti-Smuggling Of Migrants Act 2007 14 February 2012 ACT 670
PU(B) 055/2012 Notice Regarding The Supplementary Electoral Roll For The Third Quarter Of The Year 2011 That Has Been Certified 16 February 2012 ACT 19
PU(B) 056/2012 Appointment Of Date Of Coming Into Operation Of The Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act 2012 20 February 2012 ACT A1414
PU(B) 057/2012 Appointment Of Deputy Public Prosecutor Of The Criminal Procedure Code 22 February 2012 ACT 593
PU(B) 058/2012 Appointment Of Date Of Coming Into Operation Of The Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012 22 February 2012 ACT A1420

e) Latest Bills

NUMBER TITLE DATE COMING INTO FORCE

PRINCIPAL / AMENDING ACT NO

DR 44/2011 Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Bill 2011 - -

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