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[2013] 1 LNS 877	ADAM ADLI ABDUL HALIM lwn. JAWATANKUASA RAYUAN TATATERTIB & SATU LAGI	PENTAFSIRAN BERKANUN: Perundangan yang dipinda - Kesan - Ultra vires - Sama ada pindaan kepada undang-undang pemberikuasa menyebabkan undang-undang subsidari menjadi ultra vires - Sama ada Kaedah Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (Tatatertib Pelajar-Pelajar) 1999 ultra vires Akta Universiti Dan Kolej Universiti 1971 SEMAKAN KEHAKIMAN: Prosiding tatatertib - Penggantungan pengajian - Ketidakwajaran prosedur - Sama ada keputusan penggantungan pengajian yang dicapai adalah sah - Sama ada terdapat pelanggaran undang-undang dalam keputusan penggantungan pengajian - Sama ada terdapat unsur mala fide dalam tindakan tatatertib - Sama ada pemohon diberi peluang secukupnya untuk membela dirinya PROSEDUR SIVIL: Pliding - Perkara yang perlu diplidkan - Isu perundangan - Sama ada isu perundangan harus diplidkan - Sama ada mahkamah boleh mempertimbangkan isu perundangan yang tidak diplidkan
[2013] 1 LNS 884	RAMESH PRASAD lwn. LOGAMBAL GOPAL	UNDANG-UNDANG KELUARGA: Perceraian - Nafkah - Isteri - Kelayakan pemberian nafkah - Sama ada isteri layak diberi nafkah - Sama ada tahap kebertanggungan terhadap pecah belah perkahwinan harus dikenal pasti sebelum pemberian nafkah UNDANG-UNDANG KELUARGA: Aset perkahwinan - Pembahagian - Rumah perkahwinan - Hak isteri - Rumah perkahwinan telah dijual - Sama ada isteri berhak menuntut sebahagian hasil daripada penjualan aset perkahwinan - Sumbangan - Sama ada sumbangan isteri dalam pembelian rumah perkahwinan dikenal pasti - Sama ada pembelian aset perkahwinan adalah secara usaha bersama PROSEDUR SIVIL: Pliding - Tuntutan setelah pliding ditutup - Prosiding perceraian - Sama ada kebenaran mahkamah diperlukan untuk membuat sebarang tuntutan setelah pliding ditutup - Akta Membaharui Undang-Undang (Perkahwinan & Perceraian) 1976, s. 56(2)(a)
[2014] 1 LNS 17	TAN CHONG TECK v. GAN SEONG CHIN @ GAN CHIN & ORS	COMPANY LAW: Meetings - Annual general meeting (AGM) - Validity - Plaintiff /member not allowed to speak - Whether AGM null and void - Whether plaintiff should have been given more time to speak before a vote was taken COMPANY LAW: Meetings - Annual general meeting - Validity - Errors in the Audited Statement of Accounts of the Company discovered after duly approved and adopted by the majority of its members - Whether the Court could declare the AGM null and void - Whether plaintiff's remedy lay elsewhere - Companies Act 1965, ss. 166A to 170 COMPANY LAW: Meetings - Annual general meeting - Minutes - No vote taken on the resolutions - Minutes recorded that it had - Whether presumption under s. 156(3) of the Companies Act 1965 was rebutted by the transcript of the tape recording introduced by the plaintiff - Whether the AGM was null and void COMPANY LAW: Meetings - Annual general meeting (AGM) - Minutes - Plaintiff's complaint that minutes were wrong as there was no vote taken on the resolutions at the meeting - Whether minutes of the AGM were null and void -Whether plaintiff could give notice of it for correction at the next AGM under Article 75 of the Articles of Association of the Company - If plaintiff could not wait for the next AGM, whether he could requisition for an EGM under ss. 144 or145 of the Companies Act 1965 for that purpose
[2014] 1 LNS 54	CHING MIEW YOKE & ORS v. GREEN CRESCENT RESOURCES SDN BHD & ANOR	CONTRACT: Sale and purchase of property - Sale and purchase agreement – 1st plaintiff claiming purchase price was settled by contra of a debt owed by the 2nd defendant to the 3rd plaintiff and agreed to by the 1st defendant - Whether 1st defendant agreed to the contra settlement and was estopped from objecting to it - Whether estoppel by conduct applied against the 1st defendant - Whether 1st defendant's conduct in not claiming the purchase price and terminating the agreement at the earliest opportunity went to show that they knew about the contra settlement; they agreed to it and were complying with the terms of the settlement CONTRACT: Collateral contract - Whether collateral contract existed – 2nd and 3rd plaintiffs believed their debt owed by 2nd defendant was settled with the contra of unit property - Whether they were induced to continue working in the project - Whether the contra agreement contradicted the sale and purchase agreement - If 1st defendant allowed to deny the contra arrangement, whether 2nd and 3rd plaintiffs unable to make a claim for the debt against 2nd defendant as already time barred - Whether settlement agreement merely provided that the consideration stated in the sale and purchase agreement was being settled by way of contra with debts which arose out of the same project - Whether a collateral agreement could exist side by side with the main agreement which it contradicted - Whether the sale and purchase agreement must be read together with the contra settlement - Whether 1st plaintiff needed to pay the purchase price - Whether termination of the sale and purchase agreement was void and unlawful
[2014] 1 LNS 57	FONG LAI HEONG SELAKU PENGARAH DAN WAKIL GOLDEN LAND HARVEST SDN BHD v. PENTADBIR TANAH DAERAH HULU LANGAT	EVIDENCE: Fresh or further evidence - Application to adduce - Land reference matter - Applicant failed to file an affidavit attaching documents sought to be adduced as further evidence not less than 7 days before the date of hearing and to serve the same on respondent - Whether provisions of the Third Schedule of the Land Acquisition Act 1960 applied to land reference proceedings - Whether provisions in the Third Schedule, in particular paragraphs 5 and 3, were mandatory - All documents were already within the possession and control of applicant at case management - Whether documents should have been adduced by affidavit within the timelines prescribed under the Third Schedule - Whether anything to justify the Court granting leave to applicant for the documents to be adduced at the hearing of the land reference proceeding

CLJ 2014 Volume 6 (Part 6)

COURT

COURT OF APPEAL

CIMB Bank Berhad v. ZIMA Properties Sdn Bhd & Ors
Mah Weng Kwai, Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA
(Banking; Civil Procedure; Contract - Loan agreement - Term loan and bridging loan - Recovery of - Whether premature) [2014] 6 CLJ 677 [CA]

Public Investment Bank Berhad v. Yap Chee Hean
Zaharah Ibrahim, Anantham Kasinather, David Wong Dak Wah JJCA
(Contract - Agency - Remisiers - Whether remisier acted within scope of duty) [2014] 6 CLJ 691 [CA]

HIGH COURT

Bukit Lenang Development Sdn Bhd v. Telekom Malaysia Berhad & Ors (No 2)
Gunalan Muniandy JC
(Tort; Civil Procedure - Trespass to land - Deliberate concealment of facts - Whether misled court - Whether amounted to contempt of court) [2014] 6 CLJ 713 [HC]

Lim Ker Phang v. Tia & Noordin
Supang Lian J
(Legal Profession; Tort - Duty of care - Solicitor - Failure to protect client's interest - The 'but for' test) [2014] 6 CLJ 728 [HC]

Maybank Investment Bank Berhad v. Hamzah Mahmood & Anor
Azizah Nawawi JC
(Contract; Labour Law - Employment contract - Breach - Failure to use reasonable care and skill in discharge of duties) [2014] 6 CLJ 753 [HC]

PP lwn. Khoo Chong Ban
Kamardin Hashim H
(Undang-undang Jenayah; Prosedur Jenayah; Keterangan - Rantaian keterangan - Inferens bertentangan - Sama ada perbuatan menunjukkan barang kes terjumlah kepada kenyataan - Saksi - Kebolehpercayaan) [2014] 6 CLJ 775 [HC]

Yebet Saman & Yang Lain lwn. Foong Kwai Long & Yang Lain
Mariana Yahya H
(Undang-undang Perlembagaan; Undang-undang Tanah - Hak-hak asasi - Hak kepada harta - Tanah adat - Hak milik orang asli terhadap tanah adat) [2014] 6 CLJ 795 [HC]

SUBJECT INDEX

BANKING

Loan agreement - Term loan and bridging loan - Proposal of loan restructuring - Whether loan restructuring implemented - Whether banking facilities wrongly and unilaterally restructured - Recovery of loan sum - Whether certificate of indebtedness conclusive proof of amount due and owing - Whether appellant's claim premature - Whether repayment of banking facilities by way of redemption of housing units
CIMB Bank Berhad v. ZIMA Properties Sdn Bhd & Ors
(Mah Weng Kwai, Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA) [2014] 6 CLJ 677 [CA]

CIVIL PROCEDURE

Appeal - Appeal to Court of Appeal - Finding of fact by trial judge - Whether trial judge erred - Whether appellate intervention warranted
CIMB Bank Berhad v. ZIMA Properties Sdn Bhd & Ors
(Mah Weng Kwai, Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA) [2014] 6 CLJ 677 [CA]

Contempt of court - Application for committal - Commencement of civil suit arising from trespass onto land - Erection of electricity poles - Trespass of cables or wires onto land - Supply of electricity to squatters - Whether defendant had full knowledge that structures encroached and trespassed onto land - Whether there was deliberate concealment of facts obstructing course of justice - Whether act of suppressing and withholding material evidence misled court - Whether non-disclosure amounted to contempt of court
Bukit Lenang Development Sdn Bhd v. Telekom Malaysia Berhad & Ors (No 2)
(Gunalan Muniandy JC) [2014] 6 CLJ 713 [HC]

CONTRACT

Agency - Remisiers - Relationship between stock broking firm and remisier - Whether remisier an agent of stock broking firm for purposes of executing share trading - Whether stock broking firm liable for unauthorised trading by remisier - Whether remisier acted within scope of duty
Public Investment Bank Berhad v. Yap Chee Hean
(Zaharah Ibrahim, Anantham Kasinather, David Wong Dak Wah JJCA) [2014] 6 CLJ 691 [CA]

Agreement - Breach - Share trading contract - Remisier carrying out unauthorised trades for client - Whether stock broking firm liable for losses incurred by client - Whether remisier agent of stock broking firm - Whether stock broking firm liable as principal - Failure of client to notify discrepancies in trading account - Whether client estopped from claiming losses
Public Investment Bank Bhd v. Yap Chee Hean
(Zaharah Ibrahim, Anantham Kasinather, David Wong Dak Wah JJCA) [2014] 6 CLJ 691 [CA]

Agreement - Bridging loan - Loan agreement - Condition precedent - Interpretation of word 'shall' - Whether respondent complied with condition precedent for release of bridging loan - Default in loan drawdown - Whether appellant in breach of contract
CIMB Bank Berhad v. ZIMA Properties Sdn Bhd & Ors
(Mah Weng Kwai, Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA) [2014] 6 CLJ 677 [CA]

Employment contract - Breach - Claim by licensed stock broking firm against employee for losses incurred involving share trading activities - Failure to use reasonable care and skill in discharge of duties - Failure to comply with policies and guidelines - Whether breach of contract of employment established - Whether employee liable for damages
Maybank Investment Bank Berhad v. Hamzah Mahmood & Anor
(Azizah Nawawi JC) [2014] 6 CLJ 753 [HC]

LABOUR LAW

Employment - Contract of employment - Breach - Claim by licensed stock broking firm against employee for losses incurred involving share trading activities - Failure to use reasonable care and skill in discharge of duties - Failure to comply with policies and guidelines - Whether breach of contract of employment established - Whether employee liable for damages
Maybank Investment Bank Berhad v. Hamzah Mahmood & Anor
(Azizah Nawawi JC) [2014] 6 CLJ 753 [HC]

LEGAL PROFESSION

Duty of care - Solicitor - Failure to protect client's interest - Sale and purchase of land - Proceeding with registration of property in favour of purchasers when price not fully paid - Whether defendant acting as common solicitors for plaintiff and purchasers - Conduct of parties - Whether defendant owed duty of care - Whether there was a breach - Link between wrongdoing and damage caused - Applicability of 'but for' test - Whether causation proved - Whether transaction tainted with illegality - Whether plaintiff proved claim in negligence against defendant
Lim Ker Phang v. Tia & Noordin
(Supang Lian J) [2014] 6 CLJ 728 [HC]

TORT

Negligence - Causation - Link between wrongdoing and damage caused - Whether effective cause of plaintiff's loss of property was defendant's act - The 'but for' test - Whether applicable
Lim Ker Phang v. Tia & Noordin
(Supang Lian J) [2014] 6 CLJ 728 [HC]

Negligence - Professional negligence - Solicitor - Failure to protect client's interest - Sale and purchase of land - Proceeding with registration of property in favour of purchasers when price not fully paid - Whether defendant acting as common solicitors for plaintiff and purchasers - Conduct of parties - Whether defendant owed duty of care - Whether there was a breach - Link between wrongdoing and damage caused - Applicability of 'but for' test - Whether causation proved - Whether transaction tainted with illegality - Whether plaintiff proved claim in negligence against defendant
Lim Ker Phang v. Tia & Noordin
(Supang Lian J) [2014] 6 CLJ 728 [HC]

Trespass to land - Encroachment - Erection of electricity poles - Trespass of cables or wires into land - Supply of electricity to squatters - Commencement of civil suit against defendant for trespass onto land - Elements of trespass - Whether proven - Whether defendant had full knowledge that structures had encroached and trespassed onto land - Whether there was deliberate concealment of facts obstructing course of justice - Whether act of suppressing and withholding material evidence misled court - Whether non-disclosure amounted to contempt of court
Bukit Lenang Development Sdn Bhd v. Telekom Malaysia Berhad & Ors (No 2)
(Gunalan Muniandy JC) [2014] 6 CLJ 713 [HC]

INDEKS PERKARA

KETERANGAN

Inferens bertentangan - Kegagalan mengemukakan keterangan tertentu - Kesalahan pengedaran dadah berbahaya - Tertuduh dilihat bercakap dalam telefon sebelum ditangkap - Laporan panggilan keluar masuk - Kegagalan pengemukaan di mahkamah - Sama ada terdapat cubaan untuk menyembunyikan fakta material - Sama ada memprejudiskan tertuduh - Sama ada anggapan di bawah s. 114(g) Akta Keterangan 1950 terpakai
PP lwn. Khoo Chong Ban
(Kamardin Hashim H) [2014] 6 CLJ 775 [HC]

Kebolehterimaan - Tindakan oleh tertuduh - Tertuduh menunjukkan ke arah barang kes selepas diberikan kata-kata amaran oleh polis - Sama ada perbuatan menunjukkan barang kes terjumlah kepada kenyataan - Sama ada boleh diterima sebagai keterangan - Akta Keterangan 1950, ss. 8 & 27
PP lwn. Khoo Chong Ban
(Kamardin Hashim H) [2014] 6 CLJ 775 [HC]

Saksi - Kebolehpercayaan - Saksi utama pihak pendakwaan - Peninggalan dan percanggahan material dalam keterangan saksi - Sama ada keterangan penting - Sama ada intipati utama pertuduhan - Sama ada saksi kredibel - Sama ada menjejaskan kes pendakwaan
PP lwn. Khoo Chong Ban
(Kamardin Hashim H) [2014] 6 CLJ 775 [HC]

PROSEDUR JENAYAH

Pendakwaan - Kes prima facie - Pembuktian - Sama ada rantaian keterangan mengenai barang kes terputus - Sama ada identiti barang kes meragukan - Sama ada percanggahan material dalam keterangan saksi utama pendakwaan menjejaskan kes pendakwaan - Sama ada kegagalan membuat siasatan lengkap memprejudiskan pembelaan tertuduh - Sama ada pihak pendakwaan telah mencapai tahap pembuktian prima facie
PP lwn. Khoo Chong Ban
(Kamardin Hashim H) [2014] 6 CLJ 775 [HC]

UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH

Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Seksyen 39B(1)(a) - Pengedaran dadah berbahaya - Kes prima facie - Pembuktian - Sama ada rantaian keterangan mengenai barang kes terputus - Sama ada percanggahan material dalam keterangan saksi utama pendakwaan menjejaskan kes pendakwaan - Sama ada pihak pendakwaan gagal mencapai tahap pembuktian prima facie
PP lwn. Khoo Chong Ban
(Kamardin Hashim H) [2014] 6 CLJ 775 [HC]

UNDANG-UNDANG PERLEMBAGAAN

Hak-hak asasi - Hak kepada harta - Simpanan atau kawasan penempatan orang asli - Tanah milik kerajaan - Sama ada terdapat penempatan orang asli atas tanah - Sama ada kerajaan negeri betul dalam meluluskan pembangunan atas tanah - Sama ada terdapat perlanggaran kewajipan menjaga kebajikan orang asli - Akta Orang Asli 1954, ss. 6, 7 dan 8
Yebet Saman & Yang Lain lwn. Foong Kwai Long & Yang Lain
(Mariana Yahya H) [2014] 6 CLJ 795 [HC]

UNDANG-UNDANG TANAH

Tanah adat - Hak milik - Hak milik orang asli terhadap tanah adat - Tanah milik kerajaan - Sama ada kerajaan negeri betul dalam meluluskan pembangunan atas tanah - Sama ada terdapat penempatan orang asli atas tanah - Budi bicara kerajaan negeri untuk mewartakan tanah sebagai kawasan orang asli - Sama ada satu kemestian kewajipan
Yebet Saman & Yang Lain lwn. Foong Kwai Long & Yang Lain
(Mariana Yahya H) [2014] 6 CLJ 795 [HC]

ARTICLE

Legal Network Series Article(s)

1. STATUTORY RAPE LAW IN MALAYSIA: THE ISSUE OF CONSENT ^{[Read excerpt]}
    by: CHE THALBI BT MD. ISMAIL, PHD, ASPALELLA A. RAHMAN, PHD [2014] 1 LNS(A) lxv

2. SHAM CONTRACTING IN EMPLOYMENT SAVE YOUR CLIENT, AND YOURSELF* ^{[Read excerpt]}
    by: JOHN WILSON** [2014] 1 LNS(A) lxix

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 A1466	Supplementary Supply (2014) Act 2014	25 July 2014	-Nil-
ACT A1465	Private Higher Educational Institutions (Amendment) Act 2014	25 July 2014	ACT 555
ACT A1464	Price Control And Anti-Profiteering (Amendment) Act 2014	Not Yet In Force	ACT 723
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

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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