Malaysia Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Pleading amendment

Legal area

Court

13 Mar 2023

XXXX 1. ) Lim Len Tat 2. ) Bernard Lee Poh Heng 3. ) Wi Kian Yong 4. ) Woon Wee Yuen (Rakan Kongsi )

Citation

JA-12BNCvC-20-10/2021 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

JA-12BNCvC-20-10/2021 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

The High Court upheld the trial judge: plaintiff failed to prove on the balance of probabilities that the sale agreements were sham loan transactions or that defendants committed fraud or misrepresentation; the late proposed amendments to add SPA2017 and DORR2015 would cause serious prejudice and were rightly denied except for a typographical date correction; D1 and D3 established validity of SPA2016 and SPA2017 and their counterclaims succeeded; appellate intervention unwarranted as trial findings were not plainly wrong.
14 Dec 2021

1. ) ALAN GOH KENG CHIAN 2. ) ANDREW TAN TOO BOON 3. ) BAN TRACH QUACH 4. ) CHAN KIT YEE 5. ) CHEN MAY FANG MONA 6. ) CHEW BAN TAT 7. ) CHIANG CURRIE 8. ) CHO SEONG YI 9. ) CRAIG REGINALD HEATH 10. ) DEFINING PROPERTY SDN BHD 11. ) HEE SZE

Citation

W-02(IM)(NCvC)-37-01/2020 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
Court

IM
Case number

W-02(IM)(NCvC)-37-01/2020 (Mahkamah Rayuan)

The Court held that Section 143 does not bar individual unit owners from pursuing individual claims for diminution of value and loss of rental arising from the Embassy tenancy; the High Court erred in striking out the entire action on locus standi grounds. The plaintiffs’ claims concerning diminution of value are individual causes of action whose accrual (for the Embassy tenancy) was around November 2017 and are not necessarily time-barred. The appropriate remedy is to set aside the strike-out and remit the matter to the High Court for trial with liberty to seek amendments to pleadings.

Malaysia Case Law

XXXX 1. ) Lim Len Tat 2. ) Bernard Lee Poh Heng 3. ) Wi Kian Yong 4. ) Woon Wee Yuen (Rakan Kongsi )

1. ) ALAN GOH KENG CHIAN 2. ) ANDREW TAN TOO BOON 3. ) BAN TRACH QUACH 4. ) CHAN KIT YEE 5. ) CHEN MAY FANG MONA 6. ) CHEW BAN TAT 7. ) CHIANG CURRIE 8. ) CHO SEONG YI 9. ) CRAIG REGINALD HEATH 10. ) DEFINING PROPERTY SDN BHD 11. ) HEE SZE