There are several injunctions that are named after landmark case laws, each carrying specific legal principles and criteria. These are landmark cases from English common law, which heavily influences the Malaysian legal system. Here’s a fun way to remember each of them: MAREVA INJUNCTION (THE ICE SPELL) YOUR ULTIMATE FREEZE SPELL- Culminating from the decision […]
Conflicts of interest arise when a lawyer’s obligations to one client are at odds with their obligations to another client, their own interests, or legal and ethical standards. Here’s a more detailed explanation: • The conflict may arise because the lawyer has duties to another client that are incompatible with representing you, potentially leading to
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This is Part 2 of and a follow up to my previous post on the topic “Mastering Employer Accountability in Third Party Harassment Cases”. The answer is rather opaque. Strictly speaking under the Employment Act, there are no express laws that govern third party harassment. That said, we cannot take the position that an employer
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There is no single legislation/statute that expressly deals with this issue, but we do have several laws that we must look at collectively (apart from common law) when addressing liabilities that arise for the company for example: 1) Employment Act 1955 and the Code of Practice on the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Harassment in
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WHAT IS PERJURY? In February of this year two-star witnesses (coincidentally brothers) were charged with multiple counts of perjury or giving contradictory statements in a corruption trial involving a political secretary. The statements made at trial were reportedly not in line with previous statements given to Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission. Perjury is the act of lying
