Can two creditors bankrupt one debtor on one judgment? [Joint Liability 2/2]
In 1976 a Seremban judge said two creditors could not share one bankruptcy notice. In 1999 Shah Alam said they could. Fifty years on, nobody above them has answered.
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Can a creditor bankrupt one joint debtor for everything? [Joint Liability 1/2]
Two courts halved the debt. The Federal Court redid the sum and got a different answer. Who owes the whole?
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Adakah Negeri Sembilan Masih Mempunyai Kerajaan untuk Mentadbirnya? [BM-11/NS]
Peguamnya sendiri menggelar rancangan itu menyalahi perlembagaan. Peguam itu mungkin juga seorang pegawai persekutuan — yang mengubah maksud sebenar ‘pandangan negeri itu sendiri’.
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A Lawyer Delays His Disciplinary Hearing. Must the Disciplinary Committee Sit and Wait?
What happens when a lawyer accused of professional misconduct keeps finding excuses not to show up to answer for it?
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Where To Now [Part 11/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
In 1988 a young lawyer in Kuala Terengganu put a sticker on his car. It read Tabik Hormat Untuk Lima Orang Hakim. Salute to the five judges... Thirty-seven years later, that lawyer became Chief Justice ...
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A Slow Rebuilding [Part 10/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
Every year the judges and lawyers of Malaysia played the lawyers of Singapore at games... In 1988 it was cancelled. ... Men can play cricket together again while the thing they serve is still broken.
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