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[2011] 1 LNS 1638	KERAJAAN NEGERI SELANGOR & ORS v. PENDAFTAR PERTUBUHAN MALAYSIA & ANOTHER CASE	ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: Judicial review - Application for - Whether respondent conducted a proper verification on BALKIS's resolution and gave relevant consideration in the exercise of his discretion - Validity of EGM - At least five names in attendance list did not correspond with membership list - Whether EGM was invalid for insufficient quorum - Whether verification by respondent based on flawed EGM an improper exercise of verification under s. 13 of the Societies Act 1966 - Whether respondent's decision was susceptible to judicial review - Whether verification by respondent under s. 13 and decision by respondent to cancel BALKIS had taken into account erroneous facts and should be set aside on grounds of error of law - Whether applicants entitled to remedies sought ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: Remedies - Certiorari - Mandamus - Locus standi - Whether decision by respondent was a legal decision made under the Societies Act 1966 - Whether applicants had shown how this decision had affected their legal rights to bring them within the ambit of a person adversely affected by this decision under O. 53 r. 2(4) of the Rules of the High Court 1980 - Whether applicants had substantive locus to be given remedies sought in application - Whether Second applicant had the legitimate expectation to assume she would be the Yang Di Pertua of BALKIS and hence had the necessary locus to receive remedies sought for
[2013] 1 LNS 107	MAT GHILANG ALI lwn. TIMBALAN MENTERI DALAM NEGERI, MALAYSIA & YANG LAIN	PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Habeas corpus - Permohonan untuk habeas corpus - Sama ada kecacatan yang berlaku semasa tangkapan dan tahanan untuk tujuan siasatan relevan untuk dipertimbangkan dalam permohonan untuk habeas corpus PENAHANAN PENCEGAHAN: Perintah tahanan - Penahanan dibawah Akta Dadah Berbahaya (Langkah-Langkah Pencegahan Khas) 1985 - Sama ada perintah penahanan sah - Sama ada terdapat ketidakpatuhan prosedur mengenai penyerahan dan penjelasan isi kandungan borang II - Sama ada orang tahanan telah diberi tempoh notis yang mencukupi dan munasabah untuk menyediakan representasi - Sama ada kesilapan yang berlaku pada tarikh yang dinyatakan atas perintah pengemukaan menjadikan perintah pengemukaan defektif
[2013] 1 LNS 725	AMAT LOYUT & YANG LAIN lwn. NG ENG KIAT & YANG LAIN	PROSEDUR SIVIL: Pengenepian - Perintah terhadap saksi untuk hadir memberi keterangan di mahkamah - Sama ada perintah terhadap saksi untuk hadir memberi keterangan di mahkamah sah - Sama ada keengganan saksi memberi keterangan atas alasan saksi bukan pihak kepada tindakan boleh diterima untuk mengenepikan perintah KETERANGAN: Saksi - Memanggil saksi untuk hadir memberi keterangan di mahkamah - Kuasa mahkamah - Sama ada mahkamah boleh memerintahkan kehadiran saksi untuk memberi keterangan walaupun tiada sebarang afidavit dibuat oleh saksi sebelum pemberian perintah tersebut - Sama ada mahkamah berhak memanggil saksi untuk memberi keterangan jika terdapat keterangan membabitkan saksi secara langsung dalam sesuatu kes
[2014] 1 LNS 47	IDRUS AYOB v. PP	CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Appeal - Appeal against conviction - Cross appeal against inadequacy of sentence - Sentencing trends in incest-rape cases - Consideration of incestuous relationship, age and welfare of victim and public interest - Whether sentence of 12 years imprisonment imposed by Sessions Court judge without citing any authorities, was reasonable - Whether it was merely a lip service - Whether sentence should be set aside and substituted with a greater imprisonment term
[2014] 1 LNS 48	CHIN WOOI KEAT v. ISBERG CORPORATION SDN BHD (DALAM PENERIMAAN) & ANOR	AGENCY: Liability of agent - Whether personally liable - Whether a receiver and manager should be liable for unlawful interference with goods if he procured the company to commit acts which amount to that tort - Whether second defendant as an officer and the agent of the first defendant could be made personally liable for the wrongful acts of the first defendant CIVIL PROCEDURE: Rules of court - Omission to state in application rule under which it was made - Whether application defective - Whether omission to indicate relevant rule related to an application as opposed to an originating process - Whether omission fatal as 2nd defendant not misled by it - Whether affidavit in opposition clearly demonstrated that second defendant was aware that plaintiff's application was a summary judgment application CIVIL PROCEDURE: Summary judgment - Application for - Trespass, conversion and breach of duty - Whether summary judgment could be sought for conversion - Whether triable issues existed - Whether plaintiff's cause of action based on trespass maintainable as the machinery was not in plaintiff's possession at the material time – 2nd defendant had attempted to sell machinery that belonged to plaintiff - Whether 2nd defendant liable for conversion - Unlawful retention of machinery - Whether absence of a demand from plaintiff to second defendant affected plaintiff's right to maintain an action for wrongful detention TORT: Conversion - Principles of TORT: Conversion - Damages - Whether any legal duty on a plaintiff in a conversion action to indicate to a wrongdoer his intention to claim damages when the goods were returned to him by the latter - Whether the liability was strict - Whether plaintiff had approbated and reprobated by filing this action - Whether plaintiff entitled to damages for deterioration the machinery had suffered while it was retained by second defendant, loss of use and loss of spare parts

CLJ 2014 Volume 6 (Part 5)

COURT

FEDERAL COURT

Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Kuala Lumpur v. Menteri Dalam Negeri & Ors
Arifin Zakaria CJ, Raus Sharif PCA, Zulkefli Makinudin CJ (Malaya), Richard Malanjum CJ (Sabah & Sarawak), Suriyadi Halim Omar, Zainun Ali, Jeffrey Tan FCJJ
(Civil Procedure - Leave to appeal - Leave to appeal to Federal Court - Whether questions posed met threshold of s. 96 Courts of Judicature Act 1964) (Administrative Law - Judicial review - Exercise of discretion by Minister - Whether reasonable - Proper test - Whether open for reviewing court now to question process and substance) (Constitutional Law - Legislation - Validity and constitutionality - Proceeding by individual to declare State law invalid - Pre-requisites - Federal Constitution art. 4(3), (4)) [2014] 6 CLJ 541 [FC]

COURT OF APPEAL

Datuk Yong Teck Lee & Anor v. Datuk Harris Mohd Salleh
Linton Albert, Anantham Kasinather, Zakaria Sam JJCA
(Tort - Defamation - Libel - Whether statement defamatory - Defence - Qualified privilege) [2014] 6 CLJ 649 [CA]

Peilis Sami v. PP
Hishamudin Mohd Yunus, Azahar Mohamed, Balia Yusof Wahi JJCA
(Criminal Procedure - Sentence - Adequacy - Rape and attempted rape of 15-year old minor) [2014] 6 CLJ 670 [CA]

SUBJECT INDEX

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Judicial review - Applicable test - Whether the objective test - Whether open for reviewing court now to question the process as well as substance of decision - Minister imposing condition barring applicant from using word "Allah" in newsletter - Exercise of discretion by Minister - Whether reasonable, constitutional and in accordance with law - Federal Constitution, arts. 3, 10, 11, 12 - Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, ss. 6, 12
Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Kuala Lumpur v. Menteri Dalam Negeri & Ors
(Arifin Zakaria CJ, Raus Sharif PCA, Zulkefli Makinudin CJ (Malaya), Richard Malanjum CJ (Sabah & Sarawak), Suriyadi Halim Omar, Zainun Ali, Jeffrey Tan FCJJ) [2014] 6 CLJ 541 [FC]

CIVIL PROCEDURE

Appeal - Leave - Leave to appeal to Federal Court - Minister imposing condition barring applicant from using word "Allah" in newsletter - Court of Appeal overruling High Court and disallowed judicial review of Minister's decision - Whether Minister's decision reasonable, constitutional and in accordance with law - Whether Court of Appeal applied correct test - Whether questions posed to Federal Court met threshold of s. 96 (a) or (b) Courts of Judicature Act 1964
Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Kuala Lumpur v. Menteri Dalam Negeri & Ors
(Arifin Zakaria CJ, Raus Sharif PCA, Zulkefli Makinudin CJ (Malaya), Richard Malanjum CJ (Sabah & Sarawak), Suriyadi Halim Omar, Zainun Ali, Jeffrey Tan FCJJ) [2014] 6 CLJ 541 [FC]

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Legislation - Validity and constitutionality - Control and Restriction of the Propagation of Non-Islamic Religions Enactment, s. 9 - Proceedings by individual to declare law as invalid on ground that legislature had no power to make such law - Whether could only be commenced with leave of judge of Federal Court - Challenge to validity of law made in judicial review proceedings in High Court without leave - Whether incompetent - Decision of High Court invalidating the law - Whether rightly set aside by Court of Appeal - Federal Constitution, arts. 4(3), (4)
Titular Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Kuala Lumpur v. Menteri Dalam Negeri & Ors
(Arifin Zakaria CJ, Raus Sharif PCA, Zulkefli Makinudin CJ (Malaya), Richard Malanjum CJ (Sabah & Sarawak), Suriyadi Halim Omar, Zainun Ali, Jeffrey Tan FCJJ) [2014] 6 CLJ 541 [FC]

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Sentence - Adequacy - Rape and attempted rape of 15-year-old minor - Whether appellant taking advantage of vulnerability of minor - Duty of court - Whether to protect minor from unscrupulous sexual prowlers - Whether punishment imposed by Sessions Court (26 years' jail) fair and adequate - Penal Code s. 376(1)
Peilis Sami v. PP
(Hishamudin Mohd Yunus, Azahar Mohamed, Balia Yusof Wahi JJCA) [2014] 6 CLJ 670 [CA]

TORT

Defamation - Libel - Defence - Qualified privilege - Newspaper article - Statements calling for fresh inquiry on cause of aircraft crash - Whether real contribution to public interest element in article - Whether statements issued on privileged occasion - Whether statements resulted from revelation of new evidence - Whether truth of revelation must be verified - Whether inclusion of defamatory statement justifiable in light of revelation
Datuk Yong Teck Lee & Anor v. Datuk Harris Mohd Salleh
(Linton Albert, Anantham Kasinather, Zakaria Sam JJCA) [2014] 6 CLJ 649 [CA]

ARTICLE

Legal Network Series Article(s)

1. STRATA MANAGEMENT TRIBUNAL: AN OVERVIEW ^{[Read excerpt]}
    by: MAZLIZA MOHAMAD* [2014] 1 LNS(A) lxvi

2. INTERNATIONAL LAW AND UNGOVERNED SPACE* ^{[Read excerpt]}
    by: MATTHEW HOISINGTON** [2014] 1 LNS(A) lxvii

LEGISLATION HIGHLIGHTS

Principal Acts

Number	Title	Date coming into force	Repealing
ACT 762	Goods And Services Tax Act 2014	1 July 2014 - Parts I, II, IV, VI and XVI, ss 10, 11, 17, 18, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 44, 50, 56, 59, 61, 64, 65, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 160, 163, 183, 184 and 197, the First Schedule and Second Schedule to the Act; 1 April 2015 - Parts IX, XIII, XVII and XVIII, ss 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 66, 67, 68, 70, 84, 88, 89, 90, 91, 94, 98, 106, 108, 109, 110, 122, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195 and 196, the Third Schedule and Fourth Schedule to the Act [PU(B) 319/2014]	-Nil-
ACT 761	Finance Act 2014	See s 3 for the Income Tax Act; s 33 for the Stamp Act; s 36 for the Petroleum (Income Tax) Act; s 44 for the Real Property Gains Tax Act and s 50 for the Labuan Business Activity Tax Act	-Nil-
ACT 760	Fees (Department Of Museums Malaysia) (Validation) Act 2014	1 January 1991 to 11 June 2012	-Nil-
ACT 759	Islamic Financial Services Act 2013	30 June 2013 [PU(B) 277/2013] - except para(s) 1 to 10 of Schedule 9 and para(s) 13 to 19 of Schedule 9	-Nil-
ACT 758	Financial Services Act 2013	30 June 2013 [PU(B) 276/2013] - except s 129 and Schedule 9	-Nil-

Amending Acts

Number	Title	Date coming into force	Principal/Amending Act No
ACT A1463	Corrosive And Explosive Substances And Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Act 2014	2 July 2014	ACT 357
ACT A1462	Judges' Remuneration (Amendment) Act 2014	1 January 2014 - sections 2, 4, 5 and 6; 1 July 2013 - section 3	ACT 45
ACT A1461	Supplementary Supply (2013) Act 2014	13 June 2014	-Nil-
ACT A1460	Prison (Amendment) Act 2014	3 April 2014	ACT 537
ACT A1459	Prevention Of Crime (Amendment And Extension) Act 2014	2 April 2014	ACT 297

PU(A)

Number	Title	Date of Publication	Date coming into force	Principal/Amending Act No
PU(A) 210/2014	Local Speed Limit (Federal Roads) (Specified Time Prohibition) (No. 2) Order 2014	16 July 2014	21 July 2014 to 4 August 2014	ACT 333
PU(A) 209/2014	Federal Roads (East Coast Expressway-Phase 2) (Amendment) Order 2014	16 July 2014	18 July 2014	PU(A) 1/2014
PU(A) 208/2014	National Speed Limit (Temporary Cessation) (No. 2) Order 2014	16 July 2014	21 July 2014 to 4 August 2014	PU(A) 18/1989
PU(A) 207/2014	National Speed Limit (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2014	16 July 2014	18 July 2014	PU(A) 18/1989
PU(A) 206/2014	Income Tax (Deduction For Expenditure In Relation To Minimum Wages) Rules 2014	14 July 2014	Year of assessment 2014	ACT 53

PU(B)

Number	Title	Date of Publication	Date coming into force	Principal/Amending Act No
PU(B) 336/2014	Notice To Third Parties	18 July 2014	19 July 2014	ACT 613
PU(B) 335/2014	Returns And Statements Of Election Expenses - Perak	18 July 2014	19 July 2014	ACT 5
PU(B) 334/2014	Returns And Statements Of Election Expenses - Penang	18 July 2014	19 July 2014	ACT 5
PU(B) 333/2014	Appointment Of Date Of Coming Into Operation	18 July 2014	19 July 2014	ACT 318
PU(B) 332/2014	Notice Under Subsection 70(2)	16 July 2014	14 September 2014	ACT 333

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