Malaysia Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Discovery (order 24)

Legal area

Court

23 Jan 2025

CHAN LENNON (berniaga sebagai OMG LUXURY TRADING) TAN HUEY ZI (berniaga sebagai OMG LUXURY TRADING)

Citation

BA-12ANCC-21-08/2024 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

BA-12ANCC-21-08/2024 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

The High Court held that the Ambank bank statement for November 2022 satisfied the requirements of Order 24 r.3 (document, relevance, possession) and affirmed the Sessions Court's order compelling its production; however, bank statements after November 2022 were not necessary at this stage under Order 24 r.8 and the related part of the discovery order was set aside as too wide and amounting to a fishing expedition; the Respondent remains entitled to seek further discovery depending on what the November statement discloses.
5 Oct 2022

Kerajaan Negeri Pahang MOHD SHUKRI BIN MOHD RAMLI

Citation

CB-21CY-3-04/2022 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

CB-21CY-3-04/2022 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

Court applied Order 24 necessity and relevance tests and defamation law principles and held that general regulatory documents that are public and directly relate to environmental management (JAS guidelines, current EIA and statewide EMP plan) are relevant and must be disclosed, whereas detailed licence lists, individual EMP approvals and marked-tree specific authorisations for 2017–2021 are not necessary to decide the defamation defences and are refused because they are irrelevant to the pleaded issues and intrusive to unrelated third parties.
28 Apr 2022

Chua Chin Soon 1. ) Ooi Yhee Shee 2. ) Theng Choon Hong 3. ) Lelaki dikenali sebagai Alex

Citation

WA-23CY-62-10/2021 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

WA-23CY-62-10/2021 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

The application was dismissed because the plaintiff failed to demonstrate that the 1st and 2nd Defendants had documents or records in their possession relating to the identity of the 3rd Defendant, and the court's inherent powers under Order 92 r.4 do not extend to compelling disclosure to assist the plaintiff absent such a showing; accordingly the plaintiff must use his own resources to identify the 3rd Defendant.
1 Jan 1900

M WEALTH CORRIDOR SDN. BHD. (Company No: 1143510-P) 1. BJ PROPERTIES SDN. BHD. (Company No.: 910256-V) 2. LIM SOON PENG (NRIC No.: 550225-10-5177) 3. ONG TEE KEAT (NRIC No: 561122-10-5557) 4. CHAN TSE YUEN (NRIC No: 520423-05-5097)

Citation

WA-22NCvC-468-07/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

WA-22NCvC-468-07/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

Both applications (Encl.31 for interrogatories and Encl.32 for discovery) were dismissed because the interrogatories sought were a fishing expedition, not necessary to fairly dispose of the cause or save costs, and the discovery requests were overly broad, nonspecific, not shown to be in defendants' possession/custody/power and in some respects privileged; therefore leave and discovery were refused and costs awarded to defendants.

Malaysia Case Law

CHAN LENNON (berniaga sebagai OMG LUXURY TRADING) TAN HUEY ZI (berniaga sebagai OMG LUXURY TRADING)

Kerajaan Negeri Pahang MOHD SHUKRI BIN MOHD RAMLI

Chua Chin Soon 1. ) Ooi Yhee Shee 2. ) Theng Choon Hong 3. ) Lelaki dikenali sebagai Alex

M WEALTH CORRIDOR SDN. BHD. (Company No: 1143510-P) 1. BJ PROPERTIES SDN. BHD. (Company No.: 910256-V) 2. LIM SOON PENG (NRIC No.: 550225-10-5177) 3. ONG TEE KEAT (NRIC No: 561122-10-5557) 4. CHAN TSE YUEN (NRIC No: 520423-05-5097)