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?
Read MoreTwo courts halved the debt. The Federal Court redid the sum and got a different answer. Who owes the whole?
Read MoreOne word crossed Negeri Sembilan this month: 'Treason". What does the law actually say, and who decides?
Read MoreOne case closed on 7 October. Another opened two days earlier. The noise is falling. Is the crisis ending, or has it moved?
Read MoreA wartime newsreader became Lord President — and three of his sentences still decide Malaysian cases today.
Read MoreThe Constitution of Negeri Sembilan never says its Ruler may be ‘removed’. What it says instead is stranger, and exact.
Read MoreA judge in Putrajaya will not say who was right about an Undang’s removal. On 19 October, he decides something smaller, and stranger: whether he may even ask — and a century of cases, from Lagos to London, show that question has never had one settled answer.
Read MoreBaginda akan membukanya. Speaker akan menjalankannya. Antara dua fakta itu terselit satu persoalan yang belum pernah dijawab mana-mana mahkamah Malaysia.
Read MoreThe Ruler will open it. The Speaker will run it. Between those two facts sits a question no Malaysian court has yet had to answer.
Read MoreHe is said to have turned against the Ruler who made him Menteri Besar. The Ruler cannot simply dismiss him. The law has an answer. Conscience has another.
Read MoreSepuluh ahli MMKN telah hilang. Menteri Besar mempertikaikannya. Antara kedua-duanya, seseorang masih membayar bil Negeri Sembilan. Siapa?
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