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KERAJAAN NEGERI KELANTAN v. PETROLIAM NASIONAL BERHAD & OTHER APPEALS
FEDERAL COURT, PUTRAJAYA
ABDULL HAMID EMBONG FCJ, SURIYADI HALIM OMAR FCJ, AHMAD MAAROP FCJ, HASAN LAH FCJ, ZAINUN ALI FCJ
[CIVIL APPEALS NO: 01(i)-24-10-2012(W); 01(i)-25-10-2012; 01(i)-30-11-2012(W)]
2 JULY 2014
CONTRACT: Breach - Terms and conditions - Agreements between State Government and statutory corporation for exploitation of petroleum offshore State - Failure to pay cash consideration to State - Whether in breach of agreements - Determination of rights of parties - Determination of core issue - Whether could be resolved by interpreting agreements and relevant legislation - Whether amenable to resolution summarily by affidavit evidence and determining issues of law - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 14A
CIVIL PROCEDURE: Summary application - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 14A - Principles - Agreements between State Government and statutory corporation for exploitation of petroleum offshore State - Whether issues pleaded purely issues of law - Whether determinable by determining core question thereof - Whether determination of core question would determine corollary all causes of actions pleaded by plaintiff - Exercise of discretion by trial judge - Whether unflawed - Whether warranting no intervention - Petroleum Nasional Berhad v. Kerajaan Negeri Terengganu - Whether still good law
CIVIL PROCEDURE: Discovery - Discovery of documents - Breach of contract - Whether documents sought irrelevant to core issue in claim - Whether could not establish issue of liability - Whether discovery application to be delayed pending determination of issues of law - Exercise of discretion thereof - Whether justifiable - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 14A, O. 24 r. 4
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[2013] 1 LNS 49 RAHINA SHAKIR AHMAD lwn. PP PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman - Hukuman di bawah seksyen 39A(2) Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 - Hukuman penjara 10 tahun - Sama ada hukuman yang dijatuhkan berat - Sama ada pembelaan tertuduh telah dipertimbangkan sebelum hukuman dijatuhkan
UNDANG-UNDANG JENAYAH: Niat bersama - Kawalan terhadap dadah berbahaya - Sama ada elemen niat bersama telah dibuktikan - Sama ada tertuduh-tertuduh mempunyai milikan bersama - Sama ada tertuduh-tertuduh mempunyai kawalan dan pengetahuan terhadap dadah berbahaya
PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Pendakwaan - Saksi-saksi - Percanggahan di antara saksi-saksi pendakwaan - Sama ada percanggahan di antara saksi-saksi pendakwaan telah melemahkan kes pendakwaan[2013] 1 LNS 121 MOHANDASS VIRAN lwn. ANNURADHA TURASAMY UNDANG-UNDANG KELUARGA: Perceraian - Nafkah - Nafkah untuk anak - Sama ada bapa mempunyai tanggungjawab utama dalam menanggung nafkah untuk anak - Sama ada pempetisyen suami mampu untuk menanggung nafkah untuk anak
UNDANG-UNDANG KELUARGA: Perceraian - Pembahagian aset perkahwinan - Rumah perkahwinan - Rumah digadai kepada pihak bank - Sama ada wajar rumah perkahwinan dijual dan hasil jualan dibahagikan sama rata setelah menolak baki pinjaman bank
UNDANG-UNDANG KELUARGA: Harta perkahwinan - Sumbangan KWSP - Sama ada sumbangan KWSP adalah merupakan harta perkahwinan - Sama ada responden isteri berhak keatas sumbangan KWSP pempetisyen suami setelah perceraian
UNDANG-UNDANG KELUARGA: Anak - Penjagaan - Hak penjagaan, pemeliharaan dan kawalan anak - Anak perempuan berusia 5 tahun - Sama ada hak penjagaan, pemeliharaan dan kawalan anak harus diberi kepada responden isteri - Akses kepada anak - Sama ada pempetisyen suami harus diberi akses yang munasabah[2013] 1 LNS 1066 PP v. ESWARAN SUSOP & OTHER APPEAL CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Trial - Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 - Defence's case - Defence that items carried were gold and silver powder and not drugs - Whether defence of 2nd accused that he had no knowledge at all of contents in his bag or 7-Eleven plastic bag probable - Whether evidence of both accused as to their knowledge of the drugs in their respective bags negated - Whether a doubt had been raised against the prosecution's evidence as to both accused's knowledge of the drugs carried by them - Whether defence of both accused was dubious, inconsistent and an after-thought - Whether prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt
EVIDENCE: Admissibility of evidence - Conduct of both accused suspicious - Whether weight should be given to this as conduct not contained in the police report - Whether this meant that such evidence did not exist or that they were fabricated - Whether evidence as to the conduct of the accused persons could be accepted even if they were not disclosed in the police report[2014] 1 LNS 12 DATUK BANDAR KUALA LUMPUR v. CHEANG KOK YUEN LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Rates - Arrears of assessment - Sale of holding - Steps to be taken by plaintiff as the local authority in order to recover arrears - Plaintiff opted to proceed under s. 148 of the Local Government Act 1976 (LGA) when it issued Forms E, F and H but did not issue Form G - Whether ss. 148 and 149 of the LGA must be complied with first before s. 151 could be invoked - Whether plaintiff allowed to proceed further under s. 151 to apply for an Order for Sale
LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Rates - Arrears of assessment - Sale of holding - Amount of arrears small in comparison to value of defendant's holding - Whether just or reasonable to order public auction of defendant's holding, to enable plaintiff to recover arrears - Whether application for sale of defendant's holding was necessary - Whether the Court should exercise its power under O. 31 r. 1 of the Rules Of Court 2012 to order a sale of such holding
LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Rates - Arrears of assessment - Sale of holding - Whether arrears of the rate created a charge between plaintiff, as chargee, and defendant, as chargor, entitling plaintiff to invoke s. 257 of the National Land Code 1965 (NLC) to apply for an Order for Sale - Whether s. 146 of the LGA empowered the local authority to apply for an Order for Sale under the NLC when there was no charge agreement between plaintiff and defendant - Whether unpaid rate was recoverable in the manner prescribed in ss. 148 and s. 151 of the LGA - Whether s. 146 of the LGA entitled the local authority to recover the unpaid rate under s. 257 of the NLC when there was no evidence of breach of the terms of a registered charge by defendant as a chargor - Whether legally wrong for plaintiff to invoke and rely on s. 257 of the NLC
CIVIL PROCEDURE: Jurisdiction - High Court - Court's jurisdiction and power to grant an Order for Sale - Whether must be done in accordance with requirements of any written law governing the matter - Plaintiff failed to comply with statutory requirements or provisions of s. 148, s. 149 or s. 151 of the LGA, s. 257 of the NLC, or O. 31 r. 1 of the ROC - Whether the Court should exercise its powers under the Courts of Judicature Act 1964 to allow application for an Order for Sale of defendant's holding[2014] 1 LNS 425 PP v. MUHAMMAD ROHIMIE ABLLAH ZAWAWI CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: Appeal - Appeal against acquittal - Appeal to High Court - Culpable homicide not amounting to murder - Whether the Magistrate was correct in finding that the prosecution had failed to prove essential ingredients of the charge - Whether it was respondent's action that had caused death of the deceased - Whether Magistrate correct in finding that respondent would have no cause to believe that deceased was suffering from any ailment where a kick to his chest would or could have proved fatal - Whether appellant proved that respondent had the knowledge that his action of kicking the deceased in the chest, albeit hard, was likely to cause death - Whether evidence showed it was respondent who had caused the injury to the back of the deceased on his left side - Whether Magistrate correct when she decided that a prima facie case had not been made out, and acquitted and discharged the accused without calling for his defence CLJ 2014 Volume 7 (Part 5)
COURT
FEDERAL COURT
Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan v. Petroliam Nasional Berhad & Other Appeals
Abdull Hamid Embong, Suriyadi Halim Omar, Ahmad Maarop, Hasan Lah, Zainun Ali FCJJ
(Contract; Civil Procedure - Discovery of documents - Breach of contract) [2014] 7 CLJ 597 [FC]COURT OF APPEAL
Bank Pertanian Malaysia Berhad v. Nora'rifah Darus
Lim Yee Lan, Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA
(Contract; Banking - Loan - Security for loan - Forgery) [2014] 7 CLJ 631 [CA]China Road & Bridge Corporation & Anor v. DCX Technologies Sdn Bhd
Aziah Ali, Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA
(Civil Procedure; Contract - Parties - Prolixity rule - Breach of confidentiality) [2014] 7 CLJ 644 [CA]PP v. Nurul Syuhada Shamsudin
Abdul Malik Ishak, Linton Albert, Mohd Zawawi Salleh JJCA
(Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure - Murder - Mother giving birth to baby and flushing baby into toilet bowl - Whether birth a live birth) [2014] 7 CLJ 684 [CA]Saufee A Rahman v. Che Yussof Che Ngah & Ors
Abdul Wahab Patail, Lim Yee Lan, Mah Weng Kwai JJCA
(Administrative Law; Public Servants; Constitutional Law - Judicial review - Certiorari - Application by public servant) [2014] 7 CLJ 691 [CA]Wing Fah Enterprise Sdn Bhd v. Matsushita Electronic Components (M) Sdn Bhd
Ramly Ali, Zaharah Ibrahim, Anantham Kasinather JJCA
(Contract - Breach - Allegation of) [2014] 7 CLJ 714 [CA]HIGH CIURT
PP v. Zainal Abidin Maidin & Anor
Collin Lawrence Sequerah JC
(Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Evidence - Penal Code - Section 427 - Charge for committing mischief) [2014] 7 CLJ 723 [HC]SUBJECT INDEX
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Judicial review - Certiorari - Application by public servant - Dismissal from police force on allegation of misconduct - Disciplinary proceedings - Whether proper - Decision of Disciplinary Board - Whether amenable to judicial review - Whether public servant afforded reasonable opportunity to be heard - Whether decision tainted with procedural impropriety, illegality or irrationality - Federal Constitution, arts. 132 & 135(2)
Saufee A Rahman v. Che Yussof Che Ngah & Ors
(Abdul Wahab Patail, Lim Yee Lan, Mah Weng Kwai JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 691 [CA]BANKING
Loan - Security for loan - Forgery - Allegation of - Plaintiff claimed her signatures on security documents were forged - Judicial evaluation of evidence - Whether trial judge took over simplistic approach when assessing evidence - Plaintiff's version of case fraught with inconsistencies - Whether defendant adduced sufficient and convincing evidence to show proof of execution of document - Whether appellate intervention warranted
Bank Pertanian Malaysia Berhad v. Nora'rifah Darus
(Lim Yee Lan, Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 631 [CA]CIVIL PROCEDURE
Action - Parties - Prolixity rule - Named defendants not served with cause papers - Whether plaintiff to prove case against non-parties - Whether pleadings ought to be amended or struck out in limine
China Road & Bridge Corporation & Anor v. DCX Technologies Sdn Bhd
(Aziah Ali, Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 644 [CA]Discovery - Discovery of documents - Breach of contract - Whether documents sought irrelevant to core issue in claim - Whether could not establish issue of liability - Whether discovery application to be delayed pending determination of issues of law - Exercise of discretion thereof - Whether justifiable - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 14A, O. 24 r. 4
Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan v. Petroliam Nasional Berhad & Other Appeals
(Abdull Hamid Embong, Suriyadi Halim Omar, Ahmad Maarop, Hasan Lah, Zainun Ali FCJJ) [2014] 7 CLJ 597 [FC]Pleadings - Material facts - Claim for misuse of 'confidential information' - Whether precise 'information' said to be breached identified in pleadings - Whether claim allowed
China Road & Bridge Corporation & Anor v. DCX Technologies Sdn Bhd
(Aziah Ali, Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 644 [CA]Summary application - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 14A - Principles - Agreements between State Government and statutory corporation for exploitation of petroleum offshore State - Whether issues pleaded purely issues of law - Whether determinable by determining core question thereof - Whether determination of core question would determine corollary all causes of actions pleaded by plaintiff - Exercise of discretion by trial judge - Whether unflawed - Whether warranting no intervention - Petroleum Nasional Berhad v. Kerajaan Negeri Terengganu - Whether still good law
Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan v. Petroliam Nasional Berhad & Other Appeals
(Abdull Hamid Embong, Suriyadi Halim Omar, Ahmad Maarop, Hasan Lah, Zainun Ali FCJJ) [2014] 7 CLJ 597 [FC]CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Public servants - Disciplinary proceedings - Whether proper - Whether public servant afforded reasonable opportunity to be heard - Whether decision of Disciplinary Board flawed - Whether amenable to judicial review - Federal Constitution, arts. 132 & 135(2)
Saufee A Rahman v. Che Yussof Che Ngah & Ors
(Abdul Wahab Patail, Lim Yee Lan, Mah Weng Kwai JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 691 [CA]CONTRACT
Breach - Allegation of - Respondent contracted to sell waste scrap metals to appellant - Respondent ceased sales of scrap metals upon discovering appellant did not hold licence under Second-Hand Dealers Act 1946 - Whether scrap metals were second-hand goods - Whether appellant required licence - Whether transaction between respondent and appellant illegal and void
Wing Fah Enterprise Sdn Bhd v. Matsushita Electronic Components (M) Sdn Bhd
(Ramly Ali, Zaharah Ibrahim, Anantham Kasinather JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 714 [CA]Breach - Breach of confidentiality - Whether information sought to be protected confidential in nature - Whether precise 'information' said to be breached identified in pleadings - Whether all statements or correspondence qualify as 'information' - Whether confidentiality of information established - Whether claim allowed
China Road & Bridge Corporation & Anor v. DCX Technologies Sdn Bhd
(Aziah Ali, Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 644 [CA]Breach - Terms and conditions - Agreements between State Government and statutory corporation for exploitation of petroleum offshore State - Failure to pay cash consideration to State - Whether in breach of agreements - Determination of rights of parties - Determination of core issue - Whether could be resolved by interpreting agreements and relevant legislation - Whether amenable to resolution summarily by affidavit evidence and determining issues of law - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 14A
Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan v. Petroliam Nasional Berhad & Other Appeals
(Abdull Hamid Embong, Suriyadi Halim Omar, Ahmad Maarop, Hasan Lah, Zainun Ali FCJJ) [2014] 7 CLJ 597 [FC]Illegality - Public policy - Agreement to act as introducer to broker deal with government - Whether court should entertain such claim - Courts' powers to deal with issues of public policy or illegality even if not pleaded - Contracts Act 1950, s. 24(f)
China Road & Bridge Corporation & Anor v. DCX Technologies Sdn Bhd
(Aziah Ali, Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 644 [CA]Loan - Security for loan - Forgery - Allegation of - Plaintiff claimed her signatures on security documents were forged - Judicial evaluation of evidence - Whether trial judge took over simplistic approach when assessing evidence - Plaintiff's version of case fraught with inconsistencies - Whether defendant adduced sufficient and convincing evidence to show proof of execution of document - Whether appellate intervention warranted
Bank Pertanian Malaysia Berhad v. Nora'rifah Darus
(Lim Yee Lan, Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Umi Kalthum Abd Majid JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 631 [CA]CRIMINAL LAW
Penal Code - Section 302 - Murder - Mother giving birth to baby and flushing baby into toilet bowl - Whether birth a live birth - Cause of death could not be ascertained by forensic pathologist - Whether could not be guilty of murder - Whether only guilty of lesser offence - Penal Code, ss. 300, 302, 318
PP v. Nurul Syuhada Shamsudin
(Abdul Malik Ishak, Linton Albert, Mohd Zawawi Salleh JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 684 [CA]Penal Code - Section 427 - Charge for committing mischief - Whether prosecution established prima facie case - Whether evidence of prosecution witnesses credible
PP v. Zainal Abidin Maidin & Anor
(Collin Lawrence Sequerah JC) [2014] 7 CLJ 723 [HC]CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Appeal - Acquittal at close of prosecution case - Whether analysis and findings of Magistrate correct - Whether prosecution established prima facie case - Whether contradictions and inconsistencies in evidence of prosecution witnesses prejudiced prosecution's case - Penal Code, s. 427
PP v. Zainal Abidin Maidin & Anor
(Collin Lawrence Sequerah JC) [2014] 7 CLJ 723 [HC]Sentencing - Fair and appropriate sentence - Mother giving birth to baby and flushing baby into toilet bowl - Whether guilty of concealment of birth by secret disposal of dead body - Adequate sentence - Penal Code, s. 318
PP v. Nurul Syuhada Shamsudin
(Abdul Malik Ishak, Linton Albert, Mohd Zawawi Salleh JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 684 [CA]EVIDENCE
Witness - Credibility - Contradictions and inconsistencies in evidence of prosecution witnesses - Whether evidence credible - Whether credibility of prosecution witnesses affected
PP v. Zainal Abidin Maidin & Anor
(Collin Lawrence Sequerah JC) [2014] 7 CLJ 723 [HC]PUBLIC SERVANTS
Dismissal - Procedure - Disciplinary proceedings - Whether proper - Whether public servant afforded reasonable opportunity to be heard - Whether decision of Disciplinary Board flawed - Whether amenable to judicial review - Federal Constitution, arts. 132 & 135(2)
Saufee A Rahman v. Che Yussof Che Ngah & Ors
(Abdul Wahab Patail, Lim Yee Lan, Mah Weng Kwai JJCA) [2014] 7 CLJ 691 [CA]ARTICLELegal Network Series Article(s)
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Number Title Date coming into force Repealing ACT 763 Financial Services Act 2013 Not Yet In Force -Nil- 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- Amending Acts
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Number Title Date of Publication Date coming into force Principal/Amending Act No PU(A) 252/2014 Factories And Machinery (Exemption To Petronas Gas Berhad, Pusat Operasi Serantau Shah Alam, Selangor) Order 2014 9 September 2014 19 September 2014 ACT 139 PU(A) 251/2014 Water Services Industry (Water Reticulation And Plumbing) (Amendment) Rules 2014 9 September 2014 10 September 2014 except paragraph 2(d) coming into force on 9 September 2016 PU(A) 36/2014 PU(A) 250/2014 Customs (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2014 9 September 2014 10 September 2014 PU(A) 162/1977 PU(A) 249/2014 National Heritage (Declaration Of Living Person As National Heritage) Order 2014 9 September 2014 10 September 2014 ACT 645 PU(A) 247/2014 Customs Duties (Goods Of ASEAN Countries Origin) (ASEAN Harmonised Tariff Nomenclature And ASEAN Trade In Goods Agreement) (Amendment) Order 2014 29 August 2014 15 September 2014 PU(A) 277/2012 PU(B)
Number Title Date of Publication Date coming into force Principal/Amending Act No PU(B) 400/2014 Appointment Of Date Of Coming Into Operation 29 August 2014 30 August 2014 ACT A1467 PU(B) 399/2014 Appointment Of Date Of Coming Into Operation 29 August 2014 30 August 2014 ACT A1464 PU(B) 398/2014 Determination Of Electoral Roll For The By-Election Of N. 01 Pengkalan Kubor 29 August 2014 30 August 2014 PU(A) 293/2002 PU(B) 397/2014 Notification Under Subregulation 3(3) 29 August 2014 Described in column (2) of the Schedule PU(A) 185/2003 PU(B) 396/2014 Notification Under Paragraph 3(1)(e) 29 August 2014 30 August 2014 PU(A) 185/2003 To view previous issues of the CLJ Bulletin, Click here
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