Malaysia and India still let a spoken word cost you your house. Guarantee law has always adapted — so why is theirs frozen in 1872?
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He crippled his wife, then nursed her for years — now his insurer calls that kindness a reason not to pay.
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The State of Selangor capped non-Muslim houses of worship at 72 feet. The Constitution has a quiet question to ask: on planning, piety, and the gentle art of measuring devotion in feet
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Malaysia has the laws to stop tariff-dodging — but one crucial piece is missing.
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You are arguing a case. The court asks you to share a document. You try. Everything stalls. The screens freeze. The judges tap their fingers impatiently. Is there a faster, foolproof way to share PDFs over Zoom at hearings? Yes, there is.
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What if the people you trust with your property quietly sell it—and then insist the contract lets them? In a Singapore case about 14 vintage cars, the court reached for a centuries‑old “ghost” of English law called bailment. Can that ghost still decide modern disputes? If you ever leave anything in someone else’s hands, you should read this essay
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Will a ten‑year cap on Malaysia’s prime minister really prevent political ‘musical chairs’ or shadow rulers?
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A royal pardon is not always what it seems. Nor are all pardons born equal. This essay sets Anwar’s legal clean slate against Najib’s trimmed sentence, and asks what that reveals about power, process, and the Malaysian Constitution. Along the way, it shows how two decisions of the Pardons Board produced strikingly different outcomes in law, politics, and public meaning – a tale of delays, denials, and enduring debates.
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In Malaysia, if a car is validly insured when an accident happens, the insurer must pay the victim. Compulsory-insurance legislation, the Motor Insurers’ Bureau Agreements, and consumer-protection reforms now make post‑accident cancellations and technical excuses very difficult. The whole scheme is designed to protect injured people, not insurers’ balance sheets.
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When a professional is found guilty of multiple misconducts, should a disciplinary body impose separate punishments for each offence, and then add them up, or just impose a single punishment for all? What if the offences occurred during the same incident, or at different times? How should the appropriate punishment be decided?
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