SRI MEENAL CONSTRUCTION GROUP SDN BHD v Chellappa A/l K. Kalimuthu (Sebagai Pengerusi Untuk Jawatankuasa Pengurusan Kuil Sri Maha Mariamman Hicom-shah Alam, Selangor)

ba-12bc-4-08-2025 High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) 17 March 2026 • BA-12BC-4-08/2025 • 20 min read

11 cases cited (0 SG, 11 foreign)

Catchwords

Contract — Privity — Temple renovation works — Authority to contract — Persons later declared trespassers and interlopers — Whether lawful temple management liable for renovation costs incurred by unauthorised occupants — Whether implied contract or restitutionary claim available — Contracts Act 1950, s 71 — Appellate intervention — Plainly wrong test.

Practice Areas

Judges (1)

Shahriza Zalina binti Abdul Shukor Delivered

Counsel (4)

R.B. Murali & Associates Firm Vijay Thev & Co Firm Balamurali Ramusamy Counsel Respondent Vijayasundra Thevar Counsel Appellant

Parties (2)

SRI MEENAL CONSTRUCTION GROUP Sdn Bhd Appellant Chellappa a/l K. Kalimuthu Respondent

Statutes Cited

Contracts Act 1950 (Cap 136)

Cases Cited (11)

UK (1)

[1956] 2 WLR 81

MY (10)

[1968] 1 MLJ 170 [1983] 1 CLJ 26 [1992] 1 MLRH 66 [1992] 2 MLJ 86 [1997] 2 CLJ 79 [1998] 1 AMR 909 [1998] 1 MLJ 393 [1998] 2 CLJ 75 [2005] 2 MLJ 1 [2014] 2 MLJ 322

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