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