25 May 2022 KUALA LUMPUR (May 25): The High Court on Tuesday (May 24) struck out a purported fraudulent suit by the late Tan Sri Dr Jamaludin Jarjis's mother, Aminah Abdullah, against her two grandchildren, his former lawyer who is now a judicial commissioner (JC), a commissioner for oaths and a law firm. Judicial Commissioner Datuk Mohd Arief Emran Arifin in his decision stated that the suit discloses no reasonable cause of action, is scandalous, frivolous, vexatious and an

13 May 2022 KUALA LUMPUR (May 13): Judicial Commissioner Datuk Mohd Arief Emran Arifin has recused himself from presiding over SRC International Sdn Bhd and its subsidiary Gandingan Mentari Sdn Bhd's civil suit against Datuk Seri Najib Razak. This is due to Mohd Arief's previous engagement as a partner in a local law firm that had done work for SRC. His recusal however will not impact the Mareva Injunction granted in March against the former prime minister. When contacted, pl

11 May 2022 KUALA LUMPUR (May 11): Putrade Property Management Sdn Bhd on Wednesday failed to strike out a RM1.43 million suit by SRC International Sdn Bhd and its two subsidiaries as High Court Justice Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz ruled there were triable issues. Hayatul Akmal said there was no merit to striking out the application and ordered Putrade Property to pay RM5,000 costs. As the case will now go to trial, the judge fixed June 13 for case management — possibly to fix th

18 APRIL 2022 KUALA LUMPUR (April 18): The High Court (Appellate and Special Power division) on Monday granted leave (permission) for i-Serve Online Mall Sdn Bhd's judicial review application to challenge several orders by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to freeze several of its accounts since November last year. The decision was made by Justice Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh who ruled that the applicants, namely i-Serve Online Mall, i-Serve Technology & Vacations Sdn Bhd, Advan

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 10): Umno on Wednesday (Nov 10) failed to strike out a RM16 million suit filed by SRC International Sdn Bhd. This follows High Court Judicial Commissioner Quay Chew Soon dismissing the Malay nationalist party's striking out application. On the other hand, Quay allowed SRC to amend its statement of claim as it contended that an amendment to accurately name parties should be allowed and the earlier inaccuracy in not naming the public officer can be cured by wa

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 8): Saudi national Tarek Obaid, who runs PetroSaudi International Ltd and PetroSaudi Holdings (Cayman) Ltd, has appointed Messrs Chong + Kheng Hoe to represent him in the US$1.83 billion suit filed by 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) against him, his companies and several foreign financial institutions. Besides this, as reported in The Edge weekly, PetroSaudi International and PetroSaudi Holdings have appointed Messrs Wong Kian Kheong to represent them. Lawy

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 1): A judgment in default has been entered against SRC International Sdn Bhd's former CEO Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, who is reported to be at large, in the company's US$1.18 billion (RM4 billion) suit against him and several others, including former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak. The order was granted by High Court deputy registrar Suriani Ujang on Monday when the case was called up for case management for substitute service. This was confirmed by multiple sou

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 28): 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) was told to file by Nov 18 its amended writ and statement of claim in its US$6.59 billion suit against its former president and CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy and former Treasury secretary-general Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah over the Brazen Sky and International Petroleum Investment Corporation (IPIC) transactions. The directive was made by High Court senior assistant registrar Syeela Marlina Uttaman following case man

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 21): The High Court has fixed Nov 26 to deliver its decision on Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi’s bid to set aside the interim injunction obtained against him by former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The ex-parte interim injunction, granted by Justice Datuk Mohd Firuz Jaffril on March 1, restrains Puad from posting, publishing or repeating alleged defamatory words from his Facebook post titled “There are two levels of quaran