SATHIYASELAN KRISHNAN & ORS v. FLYFIREFLY SDN BHD
HIGH COURT MALAYA, SHAH ALAM
LIM CHONG FONG JC
[CIVIL APPEAL NO: 12A-157-10-2014]
15 APRIL 2015

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Summary judgment - Triable issues - Whether existed - Whether there were arguable questions of law which were unfit for summary determination

CONTRACT: Employment contract - Breach - Premature resignation from employment - Compensation - Whether agreed liquidated sum was in substance a penalty - Whether actual loss proved - Whether s. 75 Contracts Act 1950 applicable - Whether provisions in contract unconscionable - Whether there were arguable questions of law which was unfit for summary determination

CAWANGAN PENGUATKUASA FARMASI KUALA TERENGGANU lwn. ROSNANI MAMAT [2015] 1 SMC 193
MAHKAMAH MAJISTRET, KUALA TERENGGANU
ROZIANTI MOHAMED HANAPHI MJ
[SAMAN NO: 87-236-03-2013]
7 OGOS 2014

KESIHATAN DAN UBAT: Peraturan-Peraturan Kawalan Dadah dan Kosmetik 1984 - Peraturan 30(1) - Barangan perubatan tidak berdaftar - Sama ada barangan yang dirampas merupakan ekstrak herba dan tidak perlu didaftarkan

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[2014] 1 LNS 1582	PP lwn. AHMAD FAUZI ABDUL AZIZ	UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH: Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - s. 39B(1)(a) - Pengedaran dadah berbahaya - Dadah jenis cannabis seberat 1000 g - Barang kes yang dirampas berada berdekatan dengan tertuduh ketika serbuan - Tertuduh berseorangan di dalam bilik ketika serbuan - Pengeluaran bau ganja dari bilik yang diduduki oleh tertuduh ketika serbuan - Sama ada tertuduh mempunyai pemilikan sebenar dan pengetahuan tentang dadah PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Pembelaan - Pemanggilan tertuduh untuk pembelaan - Kesalahan pengedaran dadah berbahaya - Akses oleh orang lain - Sama ada tertuduh telah membuktikan dakwaan kewujudan pihak lain di dalam bilik yang didiami olehnya - Sama ada pembelaan tertuduh merupakan rekaan semata-mata KETERANGAN: Inferen - Kelakuan - Reaksi tertuduh ketika serbuan - Menggelabah dan ketakutan ketika serbuan - Pemilikan dan pengetahuan berkenaan dadah berbahaya - Ketiadaan cabaran oleh pihak pembelaan - Sama ada tertuduh mempunyai pengetahuan berkenaan dadah yang dijumpai berdekatannya - Akta Keterangan 1950, s. 8 & 9 KETERANGAN: Saksi - Saksi berkepentingan - Saksi pihak pembelaan - Kredibiliti - Saksi merupakan kakak tertuduh - Sama ada keterangan saksi berkepentingan boleh diterima
[2014] 1 LNS 1636	PP lwn. SHARIFF ABDUL RAZAK	UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH: Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - s. 39B(1) - Pengedaran dadah - Kawalan - Sama ada terdapat pertukaran tangan secara fizikal - Sama ada tertuduh mempunyai kawalan keatas dadah - Sama ada dadah yang ditunjukkan oleh tertuduh adalah untuk tujuan penyerahan bagi pengedaran dadah PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Pendakwaan - Kes prima facie - Pembuktian kes - Pertuduhan di bawah s. 39B(1) Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Sama ada perkara penyerahan sebenar dadah telah dibuktikan oleh pihak pendakwaan - Sama ada pihak pendakwaan telah berjaya membuktikan kes prima facie terhadap tertuduh atas pertuduhan - Kanun Tatacara Jenayah, s. 180
[2015] 1 LNS 3	TAY CHYE HUAT v. MESSRS LEE & TENGKU AZRINA & ORS	CONTRACT: Misrepresentation - Representation - Inducement - Granting of loan prematurely - Loan agreement executed after disbursement of loan - Whether lender was induced by borrower to make disbursement of loan - Whether allegation of misrepresentation proven CIVIL PROCEDURE: Pleadings - Rules of pleading - Attempt to expand cause of action at submission stage - Whether parties bound by their pleading - Whether a party can expand its cause of action at submission stage EVIDENCE: Adverse inference - Failure to call witness - Allegation of misrepresentation - Assertion of particular facts by a party - Plaintiffs assertion that defendant's employee made certain representation - Whether adverse inference can be drawn against defendant for failure to call its employee as witness - Whether a party who asserts a particular fact against a person has duty to call that person as a witness to prove
[2015] 1 LNS 36	SARACHI SERVICES SDN BHD (IN LIQUIDATION) v. TING CHECK SII & ANOR	CIVIL PROCEDURE: Action - Cause of action - Cause of action against legal firm - Suing legal firm who merely acted on instruction from its client - Blood relationship between advocate and client - Whether action properly brought against legal firm as co-defendant CIVIL PROCEDURE: Striking out - Action - Scandalous and abuse of court process - Want of cause of action - Action against a legal firm - Whether action ought to be struck out - Rules of Court 2012, O. 18 r. 19(1) LAND LAW: Caveats - Wrongful lodgment - Application to remove caveat - Caveatable interest - Resulting trust - Land being asset of a company under liquidation - Whether caveator had caveatable interest in land - Whether balance of convenience favoured caveats remaining
[2015] 1 LNS 38	RR ROAD SAFETY SDN BHD v. WANG SOON REALTY DEVELOPMENT SDN BHD; FREIGHT MARK (M) SDN BHD (THIRD PARTY)	TORT: Occupier's liability - Duty of occupier - Nuisance - Determining liability - Claim by adjoining neighbour against landowner for act of nuisance caused by tenant - Damage to adjoining neighbour's property as a result of fire - Whether landowner or tenant should be held liable CIVIL PROCEDURE: Parties - Proper plaintiff - Aggrieved party - Claims for loss and damages to plaintiff's goods stored in a warehouse that was caught in fire - Whether plaintiff's claim sustainable - Whether plaintiff was aggrieved party

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COURT

COURT OF APPEAL

Abu Bakar Pangis & Ors v. Tung Cheong Sawmill Sdn Bhd & Ors And Another Appeal
(Native Law And Custom - Issuance of provisional leases over native customary land - Whether subject to appellants' native customary rights over lands) [2015] 5 CLJ 753 [CA]

Derek Victor Cawton & Anor v. Fatimah Mohd Hashim
(Land Law; Civil Procedure - Whether Malay Reserve Land could be leased to non-Malay - Estoppel) [2015] 5 CLJ 788 [CA]

Goh Chin Seng v. RHB Bank Bhd
(Civil Procedure - Res judicata - Whether substituted service at last known address proper and regular) [2015] 5 CLJ 798 [CA]

Resolution Alliance Sdn Bhd v. Binabaik Sdn Bhd & Anor
(Contract; Land Law; Words & Phrases - Assignment of liabilities to assignee - Outstanding maintenance charges - Refusal of developer to deliver up strata title to assignee - Whether in breach of undertaking pursuant to Consent to Assignment) [2015] 5 CLJ 813 [CA]

HIGH COURT

Hong Leong Bank Bhd v. Ling Young Tuen (Tetuan Lee, Ling & Partners)
(Civil Procedure - Res judicata - Garnishee order - Service at bank's branch - Whether valid service) [2015] 5 CLJ 827 [HC]

Mohd Azlan Hj Zainal & Ors v. Pegawai Penerima Syarikat Cosmopro Planners Sdn Bhd & Ors
(Civil Procedure - Application for setting aside judgment in default of appearance - Whether filed within time) [2015] 5 CLJ 836 [HC]

Mudajaya Corporation Bhd v. Leighton Contractors (M) Sdn Bhd
(Construction Law; Statutory Interpretation - Government construction contract - Whether exempted from provisions of Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012) [2015] 5 CLJ 848 [HC]

Omar Salim lwn. PP & Satu Kes Lagi
(Prosedur Jenayah; Keterangan - Kesalahan mengangkut migran yang diseludup - Sama ada hukuman yang dijatuhkan memadai - Akta Antipemerdagangan Orang dan Antipenyeludupan Migran 2007, s. 26J) [2015] 5 CLJ 865 [HC]

Sathiyaselan Krishnan & Ors v. Flyfirefly Sdn Bhd
(Civil Procedure; Contract - Summary judgment - Premature resignation from employment - Compensation - Whether agreed liquidated sum was in substance a penalty) [2015] 5 CLJ 880 [HC]

SUBJECT INDEX

CIVIL PROCEDURE

Action - Res judicata - Service of originating summons ('OS') - Whether substituted service of OS substantiated and proved - Whether issues or points fully litigated in previous OS proceeding - Whether reliance on plea of res judicata and estoppels justified - Whether appellant barred from relitigating issues - Whether abuse of court process - Delay in filing action - Whether claim bad for laches
Goh Chin Seng v. RHB Bank Bhd
(Abang Iskandar, Badariah Sahamid, Idrus Harun JJCA) [2015] 5 CLJ 798 [CA]

Originating summons - Setting aside - Application for service of originating summons ('OS') - Whether substituted service of OS substantiated and proved - Whether OS brought to appellant's notice - Whether substituted service at appellant's last known address proper and regular - Whether OS duly served on appellant
Goh Chin Seng v. RHB Bank Bhd
(Abang Iskandar, Badariah Sahamid, Idrus Harun JJCA) [2015] 5 CLJ 798 [CA]

Estoppel - Estoppel by conduct - Whether respondent estopped from denying appellants' possessory right - Doctrine of estoppel - Whether a flexible principle - Whether ignorance of law a defence or excuse
Derek Victor Cawton & Anor v. Fatimah Mohd Hashim
(Abdul Wahab Patail, Linton Albert, Badariah Sahamid JJCA) [2015] 5 CLJ 788 [CA]

Judgments and orders - Garnishee order - Service of - Whether personal service on corporations should be at registered office of company - Service at bank's branch - Whether valid service - Rules of Court 2012, O. 49
Hong Leong Bank Bhd v. Ling Young Tuen (Tetuan Lee, Ling & Partners)
(Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal J) [2015] 5 CLJ 827 [HC]

Res judicata - Principles - Whether issues already raised in earlier proceedings - Whether res judicata applied
Hong Leong Bank Bhd v. Ling Young Tuen (Tetuan Lee, Ling & Partners)
(Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal J) [2015] 5 CLJ 827 [HC]

Setting aside - Default judgment - Default judgment served four years later - Whether application to set aside regular - Whether filed within time - Whether there was inordinate delay - Whether applicant should have filed application for extension of time - Whether abuse of court process - Rules of Court 2012, O. 13 r. 1 & O. 19
Mohd Azlan Hj Zainal & Ors v. Pegawai Penerima Syarikat Cosmopro Planners Sdn Bhd & Ors
(Suraya Othman J) [2015] 5 CLJ 836 [HC]

Summary judgment - Triable issues - Whether existed - Whether there were arguable questions of law which was unfit for summary determination
Sathiyaselan Krishnan & Ors v. Flyfirefly Sdn Bhd
(Lim Chong Fong JC) [2015] 5 CLJ 880 [HC]

Time - Extension of time - Application for setting aside judgment in default of appearance - Default judgment served four years later - Whether filed within time - Whether applicant should have filed application for extension of time - Rules of Court 2012, O. 42 r. 13
Mohd Azlan Hj Zainal & Ors v. Pegawai Penerima Syarikat Cosmopro Planners Sdn Bhd & Ors
(Suraya Othman J) [2015] 5 CLJ 836 [HC]

CONSTRUCTION LAW

Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication (Exemption) Order 2014 ('Exemption Order') - Effect of - Construction of power plant - Electricity and power supply generation - Dispute between parties - Whether referred to adjudication under Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 ('CIPAA') - Whether government construction contract as specified in First Schedule of Exemption Order exempted from provisions of CIPAA - Whether exemption applied to particular and specific types of government construction contracts - Whether parties could invoke provisions under CIPAA
Mudajaya Corporation Bhd v. Leighton Contractors (M) Sdn Bhd
(Mary Lim J) [2015] 5 CLJ 848 [HC]

CONTRACT

Assignment - Sale and purchase agreement - Loan - Written undertaking to execute memorandum of transfer of property by developer to purchaser - Bank disbursed loan in full to developer - Condition that strata title only to be released if assignee made full payment of outstanding maintenance charges - Default in repayment - Auction of property - Second request for release of strata title - Whether assignee liable to pay outstanding maintenance charges - Whether there was assignment of liabilities to assignee
Resolution Alliance Sdn Bhd v. Binabaik Sdn Bhd & Anor
(Mohd Hishamudin Yunus, Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, Umi Kalthum Abdul Majid JJCA) [2015] 5 CLJ 813 [CA]

Employment contract - Breach - Premature resignation from employment - Compensation - Whether agreed liquidated sum was in substance a penalty - Whether actual loss proved - Whether s. 75 Contracts Act 1950 applicable - Whether provisions in contract unconscionable - Whether there were arguable questions of law which was unfit for summary determination
Sathiyaselan Krishnan & Ors v. Flyfirefly Sdn Bhd
(Lim Chong Fong JC) [2015] 5 CLJ 880 [HC]

LAND LAW

Malay reservations - Dealings in reservation land - Land leased to non-Malays - Whether Malay Reserve Land could be leased to non-Malay - Whether lease contravened Malay Reservation Enactment (Cap. 142), ss. 2,5 8 and 19
Derek Victor Cawton & Anor v. Fatimah Mohd Hashim
(Abdul Wahab Patail, Linton Albert, Badariah Sahamid JJCA) [2015] 5 CLJ 788 [CA]

Strata title - Maintenance charges - Condition that strata title released only if assignee made full payment of outstanding maintenance charges - Default in repayment of loan - Auction of property - Refusal of developer to deliver up strata title to assignee - Whether refusal in breach of undertaking given pursuant to Consent to Assignment - Strata Titles Act 1985, s. 40A
Resolution Alliance Sdn Bhd v. Binabaik Sdn Bhd & Anor
(Mohd Hishamudin Yunus, Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, Umi Kalthum Abdul Majid JJCA) [2015] 5 CLJ 813 [CA]

NATIVE LAW AND CUSTOM

Land dispute - Native customary rights ('NCR') over land - Issuance of provisional leases over native customary land - High Court found appellants failed to prove NCR claims upon balance of probabilities - Whether High Court erred in its decision - Whether appellate court should intervene upon finding of fact by trial court - Whether issuance of provisional leases was subject to appellants' NCR over lands - Whether appellants' claims dismissed for wrong reasons - Whether High Court adopted realistic approach in assessing evidence of witnesses - Whether NCR ceased to exist - Whether defence of second and third respondents established
Abu Bakar Pangis & Ors v. Tung Cheong Sawmill Sdn Bhd & Ors And Another Appeal
(Abdul Wahab Patail, Mohtarudin Baki, Mah Weng Kwai JJCA) [2015] 5 CLJ 753 [CA]

STATUTORY INTERPRETATION

Construction of statutes - Exemption provisions - Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication (Exemption) Order 2014 - Whether to be read together with Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 ('CIPAA') - Whether exemption clauses or orders must be read narrowly and restrictively with regards to purpose, objects and intent of CIPAA - Whether exemption applied to particular and specific types of government construction contracts - Whether parties could invoke provisions under CIPAA - Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s. 17A
Mudajaya Corporation Bhd v. Leighton Contractors (M) Sdn Bhd
(Mary Lim J) [2015] 5 CLJ 848 [HC]

WORDS & PHRASES

"other outgoings" - Meaning of - Deed of assignment - Whether included maintenance charges
Resolution Alliance Sdn Bhd v. Binabaik Sdn Bhd & Anor
(Mohd Hishamudin Yunus, Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, Umi Kalthum Abdul Majid JJCA) [2015] 5 CLJ 813 [CA]

INDEKS PERKARA

KETERANGAN

Kebolehterimaan - Deposisi - Sama ada Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen mengambil segala tindakan semasa merakam deposisi - Sama ada deposisi migran boleh diterima sebagai keterangan kes pendakwaan - Akta Keterangan 1950, s. 114(e) - Akta Antipemerdagangan Orang dan Antipenyeludupan Migran 2007, ss. 26J-61A - Akta Imigresen 1959/63, s. 40A
Omar Salim lwn. PP & Satu Kes Lagi
(Abu Bakar Katar PK) [2015] 5 CLJ 865 [HC]

PROSEDUR JENAYAH

Rayuan - Rayuan oleh pendakwaan - Rayuan terhadap hukuman - Tertuduh disabit atas kesalahan mengangkut migran yang diseludup - Hukuman dua tahun penjara - Sama ada hukuman yang dijatuhkan memadai - Sama ada hukuman bersifat deteren kepada tertuduh dan orang awam - Akta Antipemerdagangan Orang dan Antipenyeludupan Migran 2007, s. 26J
Omar Salim lwn. PP & Satu Kes Lagi
(Abu Bakar Katar PK) [2015] 5 CLJ 865 [HC]

Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman - Sabitan di bawah s. 26J Akta Antipemerdagangan Orang dan Antipenyeludupan Migran 2007 - Tertuduh dijatuhkan hukuman dua tahun penjara - Sama ada intipati pertuduhan dibuktikan - Sama ada tertuduh mempunyai mens rea - Sama ada Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen terkhilaf dari segi fakta dan undang-undang
Omar Salim lwn. PP & Satu Kes Lagi
(Abu Bakar Katar PK) [2015] 5 CLJ 865 [HC]

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