CLJ Bulletin, Vol 2004, Issue 47
26 November  2004

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1. CLJ November (Part 3) 2004

2. CLJ Supp November (Part 2) 2004

1. CLJ November (Part 3) 2004

COURT

Cepatwawasan Group Bhd v. Datuk Lo Fui Ming & Ors; Ho Hee Chung (Intervening Respondent)
(Company law - Meetings - Whether validly adjourned by chairman without consent of meeting) [2004] 4 CLJ 453

Perspective Management Services Sdn Bhd v. Seganom Sdn Bhd
(Civil procedure - Action - Res judicata - Issue estoppel - Abuse of process) [2004] 4 CLJ 466

Rosneli Kundor v. Kelantan State Economic Development Corporation
(Labour law - Employment - Secondment - Legality - Malice - Constructively dismissed) [2004] 4 CLJ 492

Shahabudin Abdul Rashid v. Talasco Insurance Sdn Bhd
(Labour law - Dismissal - Constructive - Contract test - Reorganisation) [2004] 4 CLJ 514

Hii Hieng Lee v. Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Malaysia & Ors
(Preventive detention - Detention exceeding three months - Advisory board failing to make recommendations to Yang di-Pertuan Agong) [2004] 4 CLJ 520

Ketua Pengarah Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial v. Rajaparameswari Marimuthu
(Social Security - Accidents while travelling - Meaning of ‘place of residence or stay’) [2004] 4 CLJ 528

Remedies - Habeas corpus - Preventive detention - Detention exceeding three months - Advisory board failing to make recommendations to Yang di-Pertuan Agong within the three months - Whether detention rendered unlawful - Federal Constitution, arts. 5(1), 151(1)(b) - Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crimes) Ordinance 1969, ss. 6, 7C, 7D
Hii Hieng Lee v. Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Malaysia & Ors
(Azahar Mohamed JC) [2004] 4 CLJ 520 [HC]

Action - Res judicata - Claim for ownership of shares - Separate claims for wrongful conversion and wrongful detention - Causes of action thereof - Whether indistinguishable - Whether barred by res judicata and issue estoppel - Whether an abuse of process
Perspective Management Services Sdn Bhd v. Seganom Sdn Bhd
(Mokhtar Sidin, KC Vohrah JJCA & Faiza Thamby Chik J) [2004] 4 CLJ 466 [CA]

Meetings - Extraordinary general meeting - Adjournment of - Whether validly adjourned by chairman without consent of meeting - Whether chairman should comply with rule that requires consent of meeting for adjournment - Whether adjournment would only be valid if it was not possible to obtain consent of meeting
Cepatwawasan Group Bhd v. Datuk Lo Fui Ming & Ors; Ho Hee Chung (Intervening Respondent)
(Abdul Aziz Mohamad, Mohd Ghazali Yusoff JJCA & Ramly Ali J) [2004] 4 CLJ 453 [CA]

Fundamental liberties - Habeas corpus - Preventive detention - Detention exceeding three months - Advisory board failing to make recommendations to Yang di-Pertuan Agong within the three months - Whether detention rendered unlawful - Federal Constitution, arts. 5(1), 151(1)(b) - Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crimes) Ordinance 1969, ss. 6, 7C, 7D
Hii Hieng Lee v. Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Malaysia & Ors
(Azahar Mohamed JC) [2004] 4 CLJ 520 [HC]

Employment - Dismissal - Constructive - Test to be applied - Contract test - Whether worker’s terms of employment fundamentally altered - Whether employer evinced intention not to be bound by contract of employment - Reorganisation of business, legitimacy and mala fides - Administrative changes, redesignation and demotion - Whether worker could treat himself as having been dismissed constructively
Shahabudin Abdul Rashid v. Talasco Insurance Sdn Bhd
(Siti Norma Yaakob, Denis Ong & Haidar Mohd Noor JJCA) [2004] 4 CLJ 514 [CA]

Employment - Secondment - Employer seconded employee to subsidiary company - Legality of secondment - Subsidiary company established only after letter of secondment was issued to employee - Whether there were elements of malice - Whether employee justified in refusing to obey secondment order - Whether employee justified in considering herself constructively dismissed - Whether employee justified in refusing to return to work although secondment was revoked
Rosneli Kundor v. Kelantan State Economic Development Corporation
(Mokhtar Sidin, Pajan Singh Gill & Rahmah Hussain JJCA) [2004] 4 CLJ 492 [CA]

Social Security - Accidents while travelling - Whether arising out of and in the course of employment - Whether employee travelling on route between place of residence or stay and place of work - Meaning of ‘place of residence or stay’ - Whether must be permanent place of residence or abode - ‘Place of stay’ - Whether can be temporary or short-term place of dwelling - Whether there had been an ‘employment injury’ - Employees Social Security Act 1969, ss. 2(6), 24(1)(a)
Ketua Pengarah Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial v. Rajaparameswari Marimuthu
(RK Nathan J) [2004] 4 CLJ 528 [HC]

Detention - Detention exceeding three months - Advisory board failing to make recommendations to Yang di-Pertuan Agong within the three months - Whether detention rendered unlawful - Federal Constitution, arts. 5(1), 151(1)(b) - Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crimes) Ordinance 1969, ss. 6, 7C, 7D - Habeas corpus
Hii Hieng Lee v. Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Malaysia & Ors
(Azahar Mohamed JC) [2004] 4 CLJ 520 [HC]

"place of residence or stay" - Employees Social Security Act 1969, s. 24(1)(a) - Whether must be permanent place of residence or abode - ‘Place of stay’ - Whether can be temporary or short-term place of dwelling
Ketua Pengarah Pertubuhan Keselamatan Sosial v. Rajaparameswari Marimuthu
(RK Nathan J) [2004] 4 CLJ 528 [HC]

2. CLJ Supp November (Part 2) 2004

COURT

Danaharta Urus Sdn Bhd v. Kekatong Sdn
(Land law - Caveat - Removal, application for) [2004] 7 CLJ 353

e-Toyo Global Stationery Sdn Bhd v. Toyo Ink Sdn Bhd & Anor
(Trade marks - Registered trade mark - Expungement) [2004] 7 CLJ 368

Malaysia National Insurance Bhd & Anor v. Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia & Anor
(Company law - Charges - Registration) [2004] 7 CLJ 391

Norwest Holdings Sdn Bhd v. Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd
(Rules of court - Non-compliance - Effect of amendments to Rules of the High Court 1980) [2004] 7 CLJ 400

Rules of court - Non-compliance - Application to strike out action - Effect of amendments to Rules of the High Court 1980 - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 1A, O. 2 r. 3
Norwest Holdings Sdn Bhd v. Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd
(Suriyadi Halim Omar J) [2004] 7 CLJ 400 [HC]

Striking out - Action for damages - Grounds for - Effect of amendments to Rules of the High Court 1980 - Whether triable issues existed - Rules of the High Court 1980, O. 1A, O. 2 r. 3
Norwest Holdings Sdn Bhd v. Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd
(Suriyadi Halim Omar J) [2004] 7 CLJ 400 [HC]

Charges - Registration - Charge over reinsurance proceeds - Whether registrable under s. 108 Companies Act 1965 - Whether court has power to expunge such charge - Companies Act 1965, s. 108(3)(f)
Malaysia National Insurance Bhd & Anor v. Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia & Anor
(Ramly Ali J) [2004] 7 CLJ 391 [HC]

Agreement - Agreement by parties to set up consortium for purpose of securing a turnkey project - Defendant tendered separately and successfully for same project - Whether defendant had breached agreement
Norwest Holdings Sdn Bhd v. Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd
(Suriyadi Halim Omar J) [2004] 7 CLJ 400 [HC]

Caveat - Removal, application for - Application by applicant/Danaharta Urus Sdn Bhd to remove caveats on charged lands - Whether application by way of originating summons proper - Whether applicant estopped from raising factor on no serious question to be tried - Whether applicant an aggrieved party - Whether registered owner could not enter caveats on own land - Whether limitation applicable - Whether vesting certificate null and void - Whether balance of convenience in favour of applicant
Danaharta Urus Sdn Bhd v. Kekatong Sdn Bhd
(James Foong J) [2004] 7 CLJ 353 [HC]

Registered trade mark - Expungement - Application for rectification and/or expungement of registered trade mark and registered user - Factors to be considered - Right to use trade mark - ‘Trafficking’ of trade mark - ‘Use’ of trade mark - Whether trade mark validly registered - Whether application an abuse of process of court - Whether there was likelihood of confusion - Whether there was fraud - Trade Marks Act 1976, ss. 37, 45(1)(a), 46(1)(a), (b)
e-Toyo Global Stationery Sdn Bhd v. Toyo Ink Sdn Bhd & Anor
(Ramly Ali J) [2004] 7 CLJ 368 [HC]

CASE OF THE WEEK

SHAMALA SATHIYASEELAN  v. DR JEYAGANESH C MOGARAJAH & ANOR

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Jurisdiction - Court - Application by wife to declare husband's conversion of children to Islam null and void - Whether civil court has jurisdiction to hear application - Whether consent of husband enough to validate conversion of children to Islam - Whether legality of conversion within jurisdiction of syariah court - Administration of Islamic Law (Federal Territories) Act 1993, ss. 90, 91, 92, 95(b) - Federal Constitution, arts. 12(4), 121(1A) - Guardianship of Infants Act 1961, s. 5

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