KENANGA INVESTORS BERHAD v 1. ) CHAN WENG FUI 2. ) YU KUAN CHON PIHAK TERKILAN 1. ) ISMITZ MATTHEW DE ALWIS 2. ) CHAN WENG FUI
wa-22ncc-438-07-2025 High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) 29 March 2026 • WA-22NCC-438-07/2025 • 15 min read
14 cases cited
(0 SG, 14 foreign)
Catchwords
CIVIL PROCEDURE: Summary judgment — Rules of Court 2012, Order 14 — Primary and secondary liability — Guarantor acting as a principal debtor — Contract of indemnity — Whether guarantor discharged from liability under section 86 of the Contracts Act 1950 by reason of a Consent Judgment recorded between plaintiff and principal debtor CONTRACT: Guarantee and indemnity — Construction of guarantee — Doctrine of merger — Whether cause of action against guarantor merges into a consent judgment entered against principal debtor — Whether separate and independent contractual promise — Settlement agreement — Unequivocal contemporaneous admissions of liability and part-payment by guarantor — Factual denials contradicted by documentary evidence — Whether nominal consideration of RM10.00 recited in guarantee requires proof of physical payment — Commercial transaction REMEDIES: Specific performance — Guarantee contemplating monetary liability and indemnity — Alternative prayer for monetary relief — Whether summary judgment sustainable.
Judges (1)
Counsel (7)
Statutes Cited
Cases Cited (14)
UK (5)
[1914] 1 Ch 904 [1934] 2 KB 394 [1936] Ch 489 [1976] 1 WLR 1042 [1976] 3 All ER 632
MY (9)
[1981] 1 MLJ 282 [1984] 2 MLJ 300 [1992] 1 MLJ 400 [2000] 6 CLJ 21 [2006] 1 MLJ 117 [2013] 1 MLJ 449 [2020] MLJU 126 [2021] MLJU 2909 [2022] 5 MLJ 393
Judgment
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