Malaysia Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Extension of time to file defence

Legal area

Court

1 Dec 2025

Azhar Bin Atan Tokoh Agro Sdn Bhd BUKAN PIHAK-PIHAK 1. ) Azhar Bin Atan (Mengikut Tuntutan Balas) 2. ) Mohd Shah Bin Manaf (Mengikut Tuntutan Balas) 3. ) Jihan Yusnizan Binti Mohd Yusoff (Mengikut Tunttan Balas) 4. ) Goh Mui Chiuan (Mengiku

Citation

JA-22NCvC-16-02/2025 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

JA-22NCvC-16-02/2025 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

CELO had a prior retainer for the company in relation to PU 2022 and materially participated in preparing and witnessing PU 2022, BEA and CA; the current proceedings are sufficiently connected to that retainer such that there is a real likelihood Datuk Clarence Edwin will be a material witness and that confidential information relevant to the present disputes exists; accordingly the risk of conflict and misuse of privileged material justified disqualification under the court's jurisdiction and applicable professional rules. Separately, Shah was granted an extension to file defence on bona fid…
1 Dec 2025

1. ) GOH MON CHIUAN 2. ) SONNY YEOW KENG WAN 1. ) TOKOH AGRO SDN. BHD. 2. ) LIM SAU CHONG

Citation

JA-22NCvC-52-04/2025 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

JA-22NCvC-52-04/2025 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

CELO and all advocates practising under it were disqualified because (i) CELO had a prior retainer for the corporate client in the same series of transactions (PU 2022, BEA, CA), (ii) CELO and Datuk CE possessed privileged and potentially material information and had acknowledged holding privileged communications, (iii) there was a real probability Datuk CE would be a material witness, and (iv) those facts created a real risk of conflict of interest and perceptible misuse of confidential information contrary to Kaedah 3, 5 and 28 and the court's inherent jurisdiction; separately, Shah was gra…
21 Feb 2023

Universiti Malaya (UM) ESA JURUTERA PERUNDING SDN. BHD.

Citation

WA-22C-73-10/2022 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

WA-22C-73-10/2022 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

Defendant had taken unreserved procedural steps—repeatedly requesting extensions of time to file a defence and serving a Notice to Produce Documents—without expressly reserving its arbitration rights; those acts amounted to submission to the court's jurisdiction and abandonment of the right to arbitrate, so the mandatory stay under s 10 Arbitration Act 2005 was refused.
10 Dec 2020

Shalina binti Saman 1. ) Mohamad Amin bin Zakaria 2. ) Suriani binti Basah

Citation

KA-22NCVC-12-03/2020 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

KA-22NCVC-12-03/2020 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

The court found the plaintiff had validly served the writ and statement of claim and met the requirements for judgment in default under Order 19 r.7; the defendants' delay in entering appearance and filing defence was inordinate, not satisfactorily explained by PKP, and their asserted defences appeared to be afterthoughts; accordingly the defendants' application for extension of time was refused and the plaintiff's application for judgment in default was allowed. Costs of RM2,000 were ordered against the defendants for each application as stated.
24 Feb 2020

1. SITI HINDON BINTI JAAFAR 2.NORAZLIN BINTI MOKRI 1.PEMBANGUNAN TANAH DAN PERUMAHAN SDN BHD 2. LIOW BENG SIM

Citation

JA22NCVC-229-11/2018 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

JA22NCVC-229-11/2018 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

Extension application (Enclosure 39) dismissed because delay of 272 days was inordinate and unjustified, the only admissible evidential basis was the limited solicitor's account of an internet banking glitch (insufficient to show a prima facie meritorious defence), and solicitor's inadvertence cannot justify a second bite; strike out application (Enclosure 42) allowed because plaintiffs' affidavit was uncontradicted after defendants' out‑of‑time affidavit‑in‑reply was ruled inadmissible under Order 32 r 13(2)(b).

Malaysia Case Law

Azhar Bin Atan Tokoh Agro Sdn Bhd BUKAN PIHAK-PIHAK 1. ) Azhar Bin Atan (Mengikut Tuntutan Balas) 2. ) Mohd Shah Bin Manaf (Mengikut Tuntutan Balas) 3. ) Jihan Yusnizan Binti Mohd Yusoff (Mengikut Tunttan Balas) 4. ) Goh Mui Chiuan (Mengiku

1. ) GOH MON CHIUAN 2. ) SONNY YEOW KENG WAN 1. ) TOKOH AGRO SDN. BHD. 2. ) LIM SAU CHONG

Universiti Malaya (UM) ESA JURUTERA PERUNDING SDN. BHD.

Shalina binti Saman 1. ) Mohamad Amin bin Zakaria 2. ) Suriani binti Basah

1. SITI HINDON BINTI JAAFAR 2.NORAZLIN BINTI MOKRI 1.PEMBANGUNAN TANAH DAN PERUMAHAN SDN BHD 2. LIOW BENG SIM