Malaysia Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Court discretion on costs

Legal area

Court

3 Feb 2023

CEKAP ASIA SDN. BHD. 1. ) DATO SRI YAP SENG YEW 2. ) DATIN SRI GAN LI LI 3. ) HONG LEONG INVESTMENT BANK BERHAD

Citation

BA-22NCC-18-02/2021 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

BA-22NCC-18-02/2021 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

On the balance of probabilities the Third Defendant failed to establish the Plaintiff's impecuniosity or other grounds under Order 23 r.1 sufficient to justify security for costs; an order would be unjust or oppressive in the circumstances and the interlocutory application is dismissed.
12 Nov 2021

Syarikat Pembinaan Anggerik Sdn Bhd Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad

Citation

BA-22C-23-04/2017 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

BA-22C-23-04/2017 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

Applying Order 59 Rules 16 and 19 ROC 2012, and having assessed complexity, skill and labour, volume and importance of documents, and significance to the parties, the Court found the plaintiff's claims substantially more complex and resource intensive than the defendant's counterclaim, assessed reasonable costs at RM250,000 for the plaintiff's original action and RM60,000 for the defendant's counterclaim, awarded each party half their respective assessed costs and ordered mutual set-off, resulting in net costs of RM95,000 payable to the plaintiff, subject to allocatur.
9 Jan 2020

LEE HENG YAU (Penjaga Ad-Litem untuk kanak-Kanak, Tan Ping Quan & Tan Ping Ren) 1. LEMBAGA TATATERTIB PEGUAM BELA & PEGUAM CARA (Datuk Dr. Abdul Rahman Bin Haji Saad, Pengerusi Lembaga Tatatertib Peguam Bela & Peguam Cara) 2. SUMATHI A/P N.

Citation

BA-17D-3-05/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

BA-17D-3-05/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

The court allowed Respondent 1's application and dismissed the originating proceedings on grounds that (1) the appellant failed to establish mala fides against the disciplinary board so s111 APU bars the action, (2) the disciplinary complaints lacked merit and were not proved beyond reasonable doubt as required for findings of professional misconduct, (3) the disciplinary board lacked jurisdiction to investigate alleged criminal offences which are for police/prosecutors, and (4) procedural and time‑limit failures (failure to use usul pemula and not seeking extension of the one‑month limit) su…

Malaysia Case Law

CEKAP ASIA SDN. BHD. 1. ) DATO SRI YAP SENG YEW 2. ) DATIN SRI GAN LI LI 3. ) HONG LEONG INVESTMENT BANK BERHAD

Syarikat Pembinaan Anggerik Sdn Bhd Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad

LEE HENG YAU (Penjaga Ad-Litem untuk kanak-Kanak, Tan Ping Quan & Tan Ping Ren) 1. LEMBAGA TATATERTIB PEGUAM BELA & PEGUAM CARA (Datuk Dr. Abdul Rahman Bin Haji Saad, Pengerusi Lembaga Tatatertib Peguam Bela & Peguam Cara) 2. SUMATHI A/P N.