Malaysia Case Law: Decisions & Judgments

Topic

Relation back doctrine

Legal area

Court

27 May 2025

PLAZA PREMIUM LOUNGE MALAYSIA SDN. BHD. MALAYSIA AIRPORTS (SEPANG) SDN. BHD.

Citation

BA-22NCvC-290-07/2024 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Court

High Court
Case number

BA-22NCvC-290-07/2024 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

Applications to amend and for discovery were dismissed because the proposed amendments sought to introduce matters and reliefs that constituted new causes of action or pre-emptive claims arising after the writ (premature under the relation-back doctrine), and the discovery request was overbroad, vague, prejudicial, amounted to a fishing expedition, was not shown to be necessary or tied to the pleaded case, and would unfairly prejudice the plaintiff especially given imminent trial dates.
14 Mar 2024

BANK KERJASAMA RAKYAT MALAYSIA BERHAD 1. ) GM HEALTHCARE SDN BHD & 1 LAGI 2. ) Sunshine Fleet Sdn Bhd 3. ) Frontier Structure Sdn Bhd 4. ) Ahmad Zaim Bin Hilmi 5. ) Chua Zhi Bin 6. ) Ng Lee Sen

Citation

02(f)-62-10/2023(W) (Mahkamah Persekutuan)
Court

f
Case number

02(f)-62-10/2023(W) (Mahkamah Persekutuan)

The Federal Court held that (1) a bank’s breach of a facility agreement does not, as a matter of course, exonerate the borrower or guarantors from repaying monies disbursed; the borrower’s claim for damages is distinct from the lender’s right of recovery; (2) upon notice of an application for a Mareva injunction over monies held, a bank is legally justified in withholding payment pending determination because the monies are the subject matter of the dispute and disbursement risks contempt; (3) paying out disputed monies in the ‘ordinary course’ is not permitted in the circumstances of this ca…

Malaysia Case Law

PLAZA PREMIUM LOUNGE MALAYSIA SDN. BHD. MALAYSIA AIRPORTS (SEPANG) SDN. BHD.

BANK KERJASAMA RAKYAT MALAYSIA BERHAD 1. ) GM HEALTHCARE SDN BHD & 1 LAGI 2. ) Sunshine Fleet Sdn Bhd 3. ) Frontier Structure Sdn Bhd 4. ) Ahmad Zaim Bin Hilmi 5. ) Chua Zhi Bin 6. ) Ng Lee Sen