Legal in Malaysia

"Dear Sir, Would appreciate your advice as follows 1. If I am summoned to court for a civil case and I arrive there without a lawyer. Can I request the judge for a postponement in order to get a lawyer 2. I am a company that have its own brand of products but manufactured by third parties. I have signed a distribution agreement with a local company for the sale of my products. Now the local company is suing me as the products didnt function well. He is pursuing a case of misrepresentation that led him to sign the agreement. My question is - Can he do this - What is the burden of proof required to pursue misrepresentation - Will the court consider that the company was well informed about the products and even visited the factory where they were made, to be fully informed. Will the court consider that as they were fully informed it was a commercial risk to sign the agreement to sell this products. The fact that they were unable to make a business out of th...

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Negri Sembilan Yang diPertuan Besar Tuanku Ja'afar Tuanku Abdul Rahman, who was the nation's 10th Yang diPertuan Agong from 1994 to 1999, died at about 11.45am Saturday. At the age of 86 years old. I wish to express my deepest condolence herein.

Do have a car? Is your car is still under hire purchase installment? I am sure majority of Malaysian do. Well in this post I want to high light one issue which I think is not quite fair to us as hirer (bank's customer). Now during this bad time I am also quite sure that quite number of us might have some delay in paying the installment. Especially for those who work or having his own business and not having fix income, the delay or slight 'irregular' in payment is inevitable. Now, assuming we have 'a little bit' of delay in the installments, but not enough 'delay' for the bank to repossess our car (under Malaysian Hire Purchase Act the delay must be more than 2 months 21 days) and our road tax is expired! Yes we are safe the bank cannot touch the car but we definitely desperate want to get the road tax so that we can drive it 'peacefully' on the road without having to sneak out from the police or JPJ. The bad news is when we run to the bank asking th...

Personally, I welcome the establishment of MACC. Give them more power to combat our society illness, I wish the new MACC will perform their duty well and with due integrity.

When the case of Highland Tower shocked the nation, everybody especially the government promised that such unfortunate incident will not be allowed to be happening again. Sad, it happened again lately and this time more tragic. That is to say, even after due complaints had been made to the relevant parties and authorities. My deepest sympathy to the victims and their family may the deceased rest in peace. Since this blog is about legal, let us review what is the outcome of the last case of Highland Tower, hope the case will give some ideas to the effected parties on their rights, bellow is the exact case report of the case (quite lengthy) but worth reading; STEVEN PHOA CHENG LOON & ORS V. HIGHLAND PROPERTIES SDN BHD & ORS HIGH COURT MALAYA, KUALA LUMPUR JAMES FOONG J [CIVIL SUIT NO: S5-21-174-1996] 11 AUGUST 2000 [Plaintiffs' claim against 6th, 9th and 10th defendants dismissed with costs; plaintiffs' claim for negligence and nuisance against other defendants all...