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Should a victim’s premature death deprive his estate of court-awarded damages?
If a road accident victim dies earlier than expected, what happens to the extra damages?
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Could we eliminate electoral fraud by improving election laws?
Could we eliminate electoral fraud by improving election laws? An election petition is a difficult thing. The law has ring-fenced it with several impenetrable technical rules. Combating electoral corruption under the current, antiquated laws is impossible. After the results of the 13th General elections results were announced on 5 March 2013, I was asked, with a dozen others, to file election petitions for 22 constituencies in Perak. The petitions alleged that the winners ...
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What is the most cunning strategy employed by lawyers? None. It is not your cunning that gets you through a case. It is not your brilliance. The Bar is full of brilliant lawyers. Yet they are not all uniformly successful. It is painful, excruciating preparation that gets you through. Here is a true life and death story: it concerned a foreigner. He was found guilty of drug trafficking and was sentenced to death. ...
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There is a client who paid me a king's ransom. This happened many, many years ago. It concerned an elderly ethnic Chinese gentleman and his wife. In the interior of Perak there is a tiny farm. A brook courses through it. On one side of it stood a wooden shack. A family lived there. This Uncle (as we shall call him) was born there. He had an elder brother. After many decades, his ...
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Malaysia mempunyai dua Ketua Hakim Negara? Dalam artikel bertarikh 13.07.2018, bekas Ketua Hakim Negara, Tun Abdul Hamid mengatakan bahawa daripada jam 9:30pm pada 11.07.2018 sehingga tengah malam pada 31.07.2018 Malaysia mempunyai dua Ketua Hakim. Adakah beliau betul dalam mengatakan sedemikan? Apabila Yang di-Pertuan Agong (‘YDPA’) menerima peletakan jawatan Ketua Hakim Negara (‘KHN’) dan Presiden Mahkamah Rayuan (‘PMR’) pada 08.06.2018, secara automatik peranan mereka sebagai KHN dan PMR tamat serta merta. YDPA tidak melanjutkan ...
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Adakah kegagalan mengemukakan nama Speaker baru 14 hari sebelum persidangan Dewan Rakyat satu kegagalan parah?
Adakah kegagalan mengemukakan nama Speaker baru 14 hari sebelum persidagan Dewan Rakyat satu kegagalan parah? Adakah kegagalan untuk mengemukakan nama speaker baru 14 hari sebelum persidangan Dewan Rakyat merupakan satu perlanggaran undang-undang? Adakah kegagalan mengemukakan Yang di-Pertua Dato Mohamad Ariff bin Md Yusof kepada Setiausaha Dewan Rakyat dalam 14 hari membawa apa-apa kesan buruk?Jika tidak, tiada keperluan untuk bincang isu ini panjang lebar. Bagaimana jikalau ya? Permulaan Kita harus melihat kepada Peraturan Tetap ...
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Bolehkah Mahkamah mengeluarkan perintah ‘gag’? Ketika bekas perdana Menteri Najib Razak didakwa di Mahkamah beberapa hari lalu, Mahkamah tinggi telah memberikan satu perintah ‘gag’ [Perintah Larangan Bersuara]? selepas satu permohonan oleh peguamnya. Perintah itu bertujuan untuk menghentikan perbincangan awam berhubung dengaan dakwaan yang ditangguhkan terhadap Najib. Mahkamah berkata ia akan membuat keputusan mengenai perintah gag tersebut setelah mendengar hujahan daripada pihak-pihak. Walau bagaimanapun, Mahkamah telah mengeluarkan satu perintah sementara. Perintah gag adalah satu ...
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Was the failure to submit the new Speaker’s name 14 days before Dewan Rakyat convened, fatal?
The opposition MPs protested that the Speaker's appointment was invalid. They walked out of Parliament. After all that drama, lemming-like, they all trooped back: and took their oath before the very same Speaker. What was that about? You tell me.
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Bolehkah Seorang Hakim Meletakkan Jawatannya Dengan Satu Tarikh Terkemudian? Keanjalan Atau Keliatan
Artikel asal oleh: GK Ganesan Kasinathan; Penyunting: KN Geetha Terjemahan olehAlumni Fakulti Undang-Undang, UKM, SY Dharan Sharveen Ketua Hakim Negara, Hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan (‘KHN’) dan Presiden Mahkamah Rayuan (‘PMR’) masing-masing telah menyerahkan surat perletakkan jawatan pada 7 Jun 2018. Yang DiPertuan Agong telah menerima surat tersebut pada hari berikutnya. Difahamkan mereka (KHN & PMR) telah menyatakan sesuatu yang sama dalam surat perletakan jawatan mereka iaitu menganjalkan tarikh perletakkan jawatan pada 31.7.2018 dengan alasan ...
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[March 7, 2017] No it has nothing to do with a salamander! The question is a simple one. The Bozson and Salaman Tests are straightforward. They refer to the two sides of the same coin. They concern two cases: Bozson v Altrincham Urban District Council [1903] 1 KB 547 and Abd Salaman v Warner [1891] 1 QB 734. These two tests differentiate between a 'final order' and an 'interlocutory order'. Where a case has started, it may proceed ...
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