[2014] 1 LNS 203

KERAJAAN MALAYSIA lwn. WIRA MADANI SDN BHD

UNDANG-UNDANG SYARIKAT: Penggulungan - Petisyen - Petisyen Penggulungan berdasarkan penghakiman ingkar - Kewujudan permohonan pengenepian penghakiman ingkar ketika petisyen dikemukakan - Sama ada petisyen penggulungan syarikat boleh dikemukakan berdasarkan penghakiman ingkar

UNDANG-UNDANG SYARIKAT: Penggulungan - Ketidakupayaan membayar hutang - Ujian kesolvenan komersial atau kesolvenan aliran tunai - Anggapan ketidaksolvenan - Sama ada kegagalan membayar tuntutan yang dibuat melalui notis di bawah s. 218 merupakan bukti ketidaksolvenan - Sama ada anggapan ketidaksolvenan telah timbul - Sama ada anggapan ketidaksolvenan telah dipatahkan - Sama ada kemampuan syarikat untuk membayar hutang boleh diuji hanya berdasarkan ujian kesolvenan kunci kira-kira semata-mata - Akta Syarikat 1965, s. 218(2)(a)

[2015] 1 LNS 220

PP lwn. ABU YAZID ISMAIL

PROSEDUR JENAYAH: Rayuan - Rayuan terhadap hukuman - Rayuan oleh pihak pendakwaan - Kesalahan berat - Banduan membawa masuk dadah ke dalam penjara - Sama ada hukuman penjara satu tahun yang telah dijatuhkan memadai dan mempunyai kesan deteran kepada tertuduh dan orang ramai

[2015] 1 LNS 197

GEMA MARKETING SDN BHD v. HOTWER DEVELOPMENT SDN BHD

COMPANY LAW: Winding up - Liquidators - Appointment of liquidators - Objection by creditors of company - Objection as to appointment of top accounting firm as liquidator - Whether court has discretion on appointment of liquidators - Whether reasons for appointment of liquidators as forwarded by petitioner were acceptable - Whether proposed liquidators have expertise in managing affairs of wound up company - Whether liquidators' claim and expenses are regulated by law

[2015] 1 LNS 287

CHIN YUAN TAI v. TERAXIS CONSTRUCTION SDN BHD & ORS

CONTRACT: Breach - Agreement - Agreement coming into effect subject to condition precedent - Whether there could be breach of agreement when agreement rendered unenforceable - Whether a party could make claims under an inoperative agreement

CONTRACT: Contingent contract - Enforcement - Failure to fulfill condition precedent - Registration as shareholder subject to payment of monies - Whether agreement to register plaintiff as shareholder could be performed when plaintiff failed to advance monies as agreed - Whether there was total failure of consideration - Whether contract became void when events turned out to be impossible for parties - Contracts Act 1950, s. 32 & 33

CONTRACT: Rescission - Remedies - Claim for refund of money paid - Non-fulfillment of contract - Whether plaintiff entitled to compensation when contract rescinded - Whether plaintiff entitled to claim other relief than what was paid to defendant - Contracts Act 1950, s. 76

EVIDENCE: Documentary evidence - Stamping - Admissibility of unstamped instrument - Whether unstamped instrument has any evidential value when not admitted as an exhibit - Stamp Act 1949, s. 52(1)

CIVIL PROCEDURE: Parties - Locus standi - Action based on contract - Want of privity - Whether a party who is not privy to a contract can be sued on terms of a contract

[2015] 1 LNS 290

MARIAYEE M KRISHNAN & ORS v. NATIONAL LAND FINANCE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD & ANOR

CONTRACT: Breach - Contract for building projects - Breach of development project - Exchange of houses pursuant to housing relocation scheme - Project failed due to disagreement by owners in respect of offer made - Whether there was a valid and binding contract entered between parties - Whether there was breach committed in not carrying out proposal for housing relocation scheme

CONTRACT: Agency - Principal and agent - Development project - Liability of principal - Whether principal bound by all acts done by agent including negotiations - Contracts Act 1950, s. 179

CONTRACT: Formation - Concluded contract - Contract for building projects - Exchange of houses pursuant to housing relocation scheme - Disagreement by some owners - Acceptance not in accordance with terms of offer - Whether there was concluded contract in absence of meeting of minds of parties - Whether agreement of all owners was condition precedent to scheme proceeding - Whether there was unequivocal acceptance over various aspects of house exchange - Whether parties were still in midst of negotiations and trying to seek an agreement acceptable by all

CONTRACT: Parties - Enforceability of agreement - Validity of agreement entered by unlawful societies - Whether any agreement concluded by unlawful society enforceable

UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS: Societies - Capacity - Unlawful association negotiating and entering into contractual relationship on behalf of its members - Whether association representing all members - Societies Act 1966, s. 6(2)