Company law

111 cases · December 2017 to July 2026

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Key Issues & Sub-Topics

Application for leave to commence meeting of scheme of creditors — Application to set aside order granting leave — Application to set aside dismissed by HCJ — Whether HCJ had erred in dismissing the Setting-Aside Application — Whether Leave Application constituted an abuse of process on ground that it was not made bona fide — Whether HCJ should have considered facts before him at the Settling-Aside Application — Companies Act 2016 section 366(1) 5 Application to sanction proposed scheme of arrangement — Sanction granted — Appeal against decision of HCJ in sanctioning scheme of creditors — Whether HCJ had considered purpose and conduct surrounding the Scheme of Arrangement — Companies Act 2016 section 366(4) 5 Fortuna injunction — Application to restrain presentation of winding-up petition — Quia timet relief — Section 466 Companies Act 2016 — Statutory demand — Unpaid judgment debt — Sessions Court judgment affirmed on appeal — Final and enforceable judgment — Whether winding-up petition an abuse of process — Principles governing Fortuna injunction– Bona fide dispute test — Whether judgment debt can constitute disputed debt — Court will not go behind regular judgment — Payment by cheque — Conditional payment — Dishonoured cheque — Revival of underlying debt — Bills of Exchange Act 1949 s 47 — Statutory threshold for winding-up petition — Allocation of payments by creditor — Validity of statutory notice — Indemnity costs agreed and paid — Estoppel — No genuine dispute on substantial grounds — Winding-up as legitimate enforcement mechanism — Application for injunction dismissed — Costs on indemnity basis. 3 Charge — Registration of charge — Register of charges — Public notice function of register — Integrity of register — Description of property charged — Floating charge — Statement of particulars to be lodged with charge — Amendment of registered particulars — Rectification of register — Rectification of misstatement — Scope of court’s power of rectification — Whether rectification confined to accidental omission or misstatement — Whether court may permit substantive alteration of registered security — Distinction between rectification and variation of charge — Retrospective enlargement of charged assets — Whether permissible under statutory scheme — Whether amendment altering asset description amounts to re-writing of security — Requirement of strict proof of mistake — Absence of underlying debenture or charging instrument — Evidential insufficiency — Bare assertion of clerical error — Whether sufficient to invoke s 361 — Burden on applicant to demonstrate true misstatement — Companies Act 2016 — ss 352, 357, 359, 361, 362 — Statutory interpretation — Text, context and purpose — Interaction between registration, variation and rectification provisions — Protection of creditors and shareholders — Whether amendment prejudicial in nature — Potential impact on priority and third-party reliance — No need to prove actual prejudice — Nature-based prejudice sufficient — Administrative position of Registrar — Registrar indicating no objection — Whether binding on court — Registrar’s role administrative not adjudicative — Court’s independent duty to scrutinise application — Practice Note No. 6/2019 — Rectification procedures — Non-application to charges — Charges subject to strict statutory regime — Whether administrative rectification principles applicable 2 Winding up — Liquidation — Post-winding up proceedings — Application for substitution of liquidator — Official Receiver (Pegawai Penerima Malaysia) — Private liquidator — Supervisory jurisdiction of court — Leave under s 471 Companies Act 2016 — Discretion of court — Interests of general body of creditors — Creditor objections — Whether objections determinative — Weight to be given to creditor views — Whether sufficient grounds established — Improvement in administration of liquidation — Specialised assets — Efficiency of realisation — Handover of assets and records — Transitional directions — Preservation of assets — Remuneration of outgoing liquidator — Entitlement to fees — Assessment under Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972 — No order as to costs — Application allowed. 2 Winding up — Liquidator — Remuneration — Sections 479 and 487 Companies Act 2016 — Basis of remuneration — Percentage basis and time cost basis — Whether liquidator entitled to charge fees to third parties — Exercise of liquidator’s discretion — Whether fees reasonable — Application to approve remuneration — Whether court ought to interfere — Whether remuneration excessive 2 Director — Statements made in personal proceedings — Attribution to company — Separate legal personality. Practice and Procedure — Admissions — Pleadings — Previous proceedings — Effect of dismissed originating summons. 1 Winding up — Fortuna injunction — Restraining presentation of winding-up petition — Judgment debt — Default judgment — Appeal pending — No stay of execution — Whether debt bona fide disputed — Whether petition bound to fail — Irreparable harm — Statutory demand under s 466(1)(a) Companies Act 2016 — Application dismissed. 1 Register of charges — Rectification — Application under ss 352 and 361 Companies Act 2016 — Omission of registered title particulars from statement of particulars lodged with Registrar — Whether omission constituted omission of a “particular” within s 361. 1 Register of charges — Rectification — Inadvertent omission — Property description in registered charge — Postal address stated but registered leasehold title omitted — Whether omission accidental or due to inadvertence. 1 Register of charges — Rectification — Property affected by charge — Meaning of “particular” — Whether registered title forms part of description of property required to be disclosed in prescribed statement. 1 Register of charges — Rectification — Conclusive certificate of registration — Section 357(3) Companies Act 2016 — Whether conclusiveness of certificate precludes rectification of descriptive particulars under s 361. 1 Register of charges — Rectification — Distinction between validity of registration and accuracy of descriptive particulars — Whether rectification affects priority, validity or effectiveness of registered charge. 1 Register of charges — Rectification — No prejudice to creditors or shareholders — Amendment merely clarifying identity of charged property — Whether rectification enhances accuracy of register without altering substantive rights. 1 Registrar of Companies — Non-objection to rectification — Whether consent or non-objection of Registrar sufficient to justify rectification — Court’s independent duty to satisfy statutory requirements. 1 Register of charges — Judicial discretion — Grounds for rectification under s 361 Companies Act 2016 — Accidental omission — Absence of prejudice — Just and equitable relief — Disjunctive nature of statutory grounds. 1 Charges — Deed of Assignment of Rental Proceeds — Registration of company charges — Description of charged property — Registered titles omitted from statement lodged with Registrar. 1 Winding up — Fortuna injunction — Restraint against presentation of winding-up petition — Statutory notice of demand issued pursuant to ss 465(1)(e) and 466(1)(a) Companies Act 2016 — Whether debt bona fide disputed on substantial grounds — Whether proposed petition constituted abuse of process — Whether interim restraint ought to be granted pending inter partes hearing. 1 Winding up — Statutory demand — Debt founded on loan agreement bearing interest of 2.5% per month and subsequently 2% per month — Borrower alleging transaction constituted unlicensed moneylending arrangement — Whether legality of underlying transaction gave rise to substantial and genuine dispute as to indebtedness. 1 Winding up — Fortuna principle — Debt disputed on bona fide and substantial grounds — Whether winding-up jurisdiction could be invoked as debt collection mechanism — Abuse of process. 1 + 104 more

Application for leave to commence meeting of scheme of creditors — Application to set aside order granting leave — Application to set aside dismissed by HCJ — Whether HCJ had erred in dismissing the Setting-Aside Application — Whether Leave Application constituted an abuse of process on ground that it was not made bona fide — Whether HCJ should have considered facts before him at the Settling-Aside Application — Companies Act 2016 section 366(1) 5 cases

Fortuna injunction — Application to restrain presentation of winding-up petition — Quia timet relief — Section 466 Companies Act 2016 — Statutory demand — Unpaid judgment debt — Sessions Court judgment affirmed on appeal — Final and enforceable judgment — Whether winding-up petition an abuse of process — Principles governing Fortuna injunction– Bona fide dispute test — Whether judgment debt can constitute disputed debt — Court will not go behind regular judgment — Payment by cheque — Conditional payment — Dishonoured cheque — Revival of underlying debt — Bills of Exchange Act 1949 s 47 — Statutory threshold for winding-up petition — Allocation of payments by creditor — Validity of statutory notice — Indemnity costs agreed and paid — Estoppel — No genuine dispute on substantial grounds — Winding-up as legitimate enforcement mechanism — Application for injunction dismissed — Costs on indemnity basis. 3 cases

Charge — Registration of charge — Register of charges — Public notice function of register — Integrity of register — Description of property charged — Floating charge — Statement of particulars to be lodged with charge — Amendment of registered particulars — Rectification of register — Rectification of misstatement — Scope of court’s power of rectification — Whether rectification confined to accidental omission or misstatement — Whether court may permit substantive alteration of registered security — Distinction between rectification and variation of charge — Retrospective enlargement of charged assets — Whether permissible under statutory scheme — Whether amendment altering asset description amounts to re-writing of security — Requirement of strict proof of mistake — Absence of underlying debenture or charging instrument — Evidential insufficiency — Bare assertion of clerical error — Whether sufficient to invoke s 361 — Burden on applicant to demonstrate true misstatement — Companies Act 2016 — ss 352, 357, 359, 361, 362 — Statutory interpretation — Text, context and purpose — Interaction between registration, variation and rectification provisions — Protection of creditors and shareholders — Whether amendment prejudicial in nature — Potential impact on priority and third-party reliance — No need to prove actual prejudice — Nature-based prejudice sufficient — Administrative position of Registrar — Registrar indicating no objection — Whether binding on court — Registrar’s role administrative not adjudicative — Court’s independent duty to scrutinise application — Practice Note No. 6/2019 — Rectification procedures — Non-application to charges — Charges subject to strict statutory regime — Whether administrative rectification principles applicable 2 cases

Winding up — Liquidation — Post-winding up proceedings — Application for substitution of liquidator — Official Receiver (Pegawai Penerima Malaysia) — Private liquidator — Supervisory jurisdiction of court — Leave under s 471 Companies Act 2016 — Discretion of court — Interests of general body of creditors — Creditor objections — Whether objections determinative — Weight to be given to creditor views — Whether sufficient grounds established — Improvement in administration of liquidation — Specialised assets — Efficiency of realisation — Handover of assets and records — Transitional directions — Preservation of assets — Remuneration of outgoing liquidator — Entitlement to fees — Assessment under Companies (Winding-Up) Rules 1972 — No order as to costs — Application allowed. 2 cases

Winding up — Liquidator — Remuneration — Sections 479 and 487 Companies Act 2016 — Basis of remuneration — Percentage basis and time cost basis — Whether liquidator entitled to charge fees to third parties — Exercise of liquidator’s discretion — Whether fees reasonable — Application to approve remuneration — Whether court ought to interfere — Whether remuneration excessive 2 cases

Winding up — Fortuna injunction — Restraining presentation of winding-up petition — Judgment debt — Default judgment — Appeal pending — No stay of execution — Whether debt bona fide disputed — Whether petition bound to fail — Irreparable harm — Statutory demand under s 466(1)(a) Companies Act 2016 — Application dismissed. 1 case

Register of charges — Rectification — Application under ss 352 and 361 Companies Act 2016 — Omission of registered title particulars from statement of particulars lodged with Registrar — Whether omission constituted omission of a “particular” within s 361. 1 case

Register of charges — Rectification — Inadvertent omission — Property description in registered charge — Postal address stated but registered leasehold title omitted — Whether omission accidental or due to inadvertence. 1 case

Register of charges — Rectification — Property affected by charge — Meaning of “particular” — Whether registered title forms part of description of property required to be disclosed in prescribed statement. 1 case

Register of charges — Rectification — Conclusive certificate of registration — Section 357(3) Companies Act 2016 — Whether conclusiveness of certificate precludes rectification of descriptive particulars under s 361. 1 case

Register of charges — Rectification — Distinction between validity of registration and accuracy of descriptive particulars — Whether rectification affects priority, validity or effectiveness of registered charge. 1 case

Register of charges — Rectification — No prejudice to creditors or shareholders — Amendment merely clarifying identity of charged property — Whether rectification enhances accuracy of register without altering substantive rights. 1 case

Register of charges — Judicial discretion — Grounds for rectification under s 361 Companies Act 2016 — Accidental omission — Absence of prejudice — Just and equitable relief — Disjunctive nature of statutory grounds. 1 case

Charges — Deed of Assignment of Rental Proceeds — Registration of company charges — Description of charged property — Registered titles omitted from statement lodged with Registrar. 1 case

Winding up — Fortuna injunction — Restraint against presentation of winding-up petition — Statutory notice of demand issued pursuant to ss 465(1)(e) and 466(1)(a) Companies Act 2016 — Whether debt bona fide disputed on substantial grounds — Whether proposed petition constituted abuse of process — Whether interim restraint ought to be granted pending inter partes hearing. 1 case

Winding up — Statutory demand — Debt founded on loan agreement bearing interest of 2.5% per month and subsequently 2% per month — Borrower alleging transaction constituted unlicensed moneylending arrangement — Whether legality of underlying transaction gave rise to substantial and genuine dispute as to indebtedness. 1 case

Winding up — Fortuna principle — Debt disputed on bona fide and substantial grounds — Whether winding-up jurisdiction could be invoked as debt collection mechanism — Abuse of process. 1 case

Service of process — Service on company — Registered office — Service by registered post — Presumption of service — Returned postal articles — Companies Act 2016, s 464 — Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 12. 1 case

Winding up — Liquidators — Interim liquidators — Leave to commence compulsory winding-up proceedings — Principles governing grant of leave under s 451(2) Companies Act 2016. 1 case

Corporate groups — Separate entities — Whether common management and shared resources sufficient to impose liability on holding company — Application of Salomon principle — Whether evidence disclosed façade or alter ego arrangement 1 case

Scheme of arrangement — Effect of sanctioned scheme — Whether scheme company’s release under scheme of arrangement discharged separate contractual liability of non-party tenant — Whether proceedings against non-party constituted collateral attack on scheme — Companies Act 2016, s 366 1 case

Charges — Registration of charges — Misstatement in statement of particulars lodged with Registrar — Incorrect date of creation of charge entered — Whether incorrect date constituted “mis-statement of any particular” within meaning of Companies Act 2016, s 361(1) — Companies Act 2016, ss 352, 353 & 361 1 case

Charges — Rectification of register — Application to rectify registered particulars of charge — Whether misstatement due to inadvertence — Whether wrong date inserted by reference to stamp duty date rather than execution date — Companies Act 2016, s 361(1)(a) 1 case

Charges — Rectification — Whether rectification prejudicial to creditors or shareholders — Whether amendment merely corrected date of creation without altering substance, amount or identity of chargee — Companies Act 2016, s 361(1)(a) 1 case

Charges — Rectification — Just and equitable relief — Whether court should exercise remedial jurisdiction to correct bona fide clerical error in public register — Companies Act 2016, s 361(1)(b) 1 case

Key Statutes

cited in 56 cases
Rules of Court 2012
cited in 25 cases
cited in 12 cases
Companies Act
cited in 7 cases
cited in 6 cases
cited in 4 cases
cited in 4 cases
cited in 3 cases
UK Insolvency Act 1986
cited in 2 cases
cited in 2 cases
Capital Markets and Services Act 2007
cited in 2 cases
Penal Code (Cap 574)
cited in 2 cases
English Companies Act 1862
cited in 1 case
cited in 1 case
Companies Act 1993
cited in 1 case

Court Distribution

Key People & Firms

Cases

Page 1 of 5
ma-21ncvc-5-10-2024
SYNTAX VALLEY PARKING (M) SDN BHD v Majlis Bandaraya Melaka Bersejarah (MBMB)
2 July 2026
MYHC
da-24ncc-4-03-2026
VERTEX CENTRAL INDUSTRIES SDN BHD v POSIM MARKETING SDN BHD
23 June 2026
MYHC
ma-24ncc-5-03-2026
DREAM STATION PROPERTY SDN. BHD. v Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM)
23 June 2026
MYHC
ma-22ncc-13-06-2026
MEGA GREENVIEW SDN BHD v WANG SHYUN KHER
21 June 2026
MYHC
ma-24ncvc-23-01-2026
1. ) YEOW MEI FONG 2. ) GOO CHU MOI @ GOH SIEW ENG v RUMBIA JAYA SDN. BHD.
15 June 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-239-04-2026
1. ) UNTUNG SETARA SDN BHD 2. ) DATO AISHAF FALINA BINTI IBRAHIM 3. ) MOK YING 4. ) LOI HENG SEWN v WRP ASIA PACIFIC SDN BHD BUKAN PIHAK-PIHAK Chiang Teng Guan
7 June 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-559-10-2025
TIMOR SHAH RAFIQ v NAUTILUS TUG & TOWAGE SDN BHD
7 June 2026
MYHC
wa-22ncvc-675-12-2023
TEC D DISTRIBUTION (MALAYSIA) SDN BHD v 1. ) IRIS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS SDN BHD 2. ) IRIS CORPORATION BERHAD
24 May 2026
MYHC
ma-12ancvc-1-01-2026
1. ) YAN CHOON POH 2. ) BONG MEEI LING v HATTEN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SDN. BHD.
21 May 2026
MYHC
ma-24ncvc-447-10-2025
Lolla Industries (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. v Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM)
21 May 2026
MYHC
wa-22ncvc-185-03-2025
PERBADANAN SETIAUSAHA KERAJAAN PAHANG v GREEN LION SDN BHD
17 May 2026
MYHC
ja-24ncvc-135-01-2026
1. ) SURESH A/L DORASAMY 2. ) KAYTRE A/P DORASAMY v 1. ) PARTIBAN A/L DORASAMY 2. ) KAYTRI SERVICES SDN. BHD. 3. ) KAYTRI SERVICES
13 May 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-615-10-2025
BURSA MALAYSIA SECURITIES BERHAD v 1. ) MAA GROUP BERHAD 2. ) CIMSEC NOMINEES (TEMPATAN) SDN BHD 3. ) KNM GROUP BERHAD 4. ) KNM PROCESS SYSTEMS SDN BHD
13 May 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-699-12-2025
Liew Ah Onn v 1. ) Tan Wei Lian 2. ) Tan Lee Chin 3. ) Samudra Luas Sdn Bhd PENCELAH DICADANGKAN TWL Avenue (Kapar) Sdn Bhd
12 May 2026
MYHC
wa-12bncvc-133-11-2025
PROVEN RELIANCE MANAGEMENT SDN. BHD. v Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)
11 May 2026
MYHC
wa-22ncvc-683-12-2023
1. ) Crest One (M) Sdn Bhd 2. ) Ng Kar Choon @ Philip Ng v 1. ) Ng Kar Kui 2. ) Ng Xu Long
7 May 2026
MYHC
ma-22ncvc-5-01-2020
SUNG TIAK KENG v 1. ) SIANG TIAK HOCK 2. ) SUNG HOCK CHAN SDN BHD 3. ) HOCJAYA SDN BHD 4. ) WISMA GEMILANG SDN BHD 5. ) HOCJAYA PROPERTIES SDN BHD 6. ) HOCJAYA DEVELOPMENT SDN BHD
4 May 2026
MYHC
ja-12bncvc-41-10-2025
CHUAH CHONG NGEE v YISHUN CONSTRUCTION SDN. BHD.
29 April 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-570-11-2024
VENKATESWARA RAO A/L KRISHNAN v 1. ) SELGATE HEALTHCARE SDN BHD 2. ) NOOR HISHAM BIN MOHD GHOUTH 3. ) NURUL MU'AZ BIN OMAR 4. ) SULAIMAN BIN ABDULLAH 5. ) MOHD SIRAZ BIN RAMELI 6. ) SELCARE CLINIC SDN BHD
29 April 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-253-05-2025
1. ) TEE WEE SIONG 2. ) TEE E VA v 1. ) MIDIOS SDN BHD 2. ) KEDIOS BERHAD 3. ) TAN CHIN HORNG 4. ) TAN KIM LIAN 5. ) VILOR PARTNERS BERHAD 6. ) GOH YOK MOU 7. ) CHAN BOON LEONG 8. ) WONG YIT FONG 9. ) LEE YEN CHEA 10. ) LUM SIN YI 11. ) LEONG ZHAN WEI 12. ) LAI CHIA SHING 13. ) TEA YONG WU 14. ) OOH CHIN HOOI @ WOO CHIN HOOI 15. ) EDUVER EDUCATION BERHAD
28 April 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-587-10-2025
1. ) SOH KOK SIONG 2. ) SOH CHENG HYE v 1. ) SOH TAN SENG 2. ) SOH HOCK YEW 3. ) SOH KOK KEONG 4. ) SOH TECK ENG 5. ) SOH KIM GUAN 6. ) SIN SENG HUAT SEEDS SDN. BHD.
23 April 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-370-07-2025
Social Finance Sdn Bhd v 1. ) Jamaliyah Binti Salleh 2. ) FK Technology Sdn Bhd 3. ) Khairy Fahmy Bin Mohd Karim
22 April 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-571-10-2025
PDC ASSOCIATES SDN BHD v 1. ) GOLDEN CRESCENT SDN BHD 2. ) PELABUHAN BAGAN DATOH SDN BHD
21 April 2026
MYHC
wa-24ncc-573-10-2025
KHON SZE HOOI v 1. ) IPAY SOLUTION SDN BHD 2. ) IYLIA DIYANA BINTI ABDUL HISHAM
21 April 2026
MYHC
ba-22ncc-185-10-2024
1. ) TENGKU SHAHNAS BINTI TENGKU ADNAN 2. ) MUHAMMAD TAIYIB BIN AHMAD KHAIRANI 3. ) AHMAD MUSTAZA BIN ISMAIL 4. ) ISMI BIN MD NASSIR 5. ) TIRMIDZIE BIN MANSOR 6. ) ZUHAILI BINTI MD IBRAHIM 7. ) NAFISAH BINTI RADIN 8. ) EFFINDI BIN ISMAIL 9. ) SAIFUL BIN IBRAHIM 10. ) AB AZIZ BIN JUSOH 11. ) NASIR AHMAD @ NAZRI AHMAD BIN CHANAN DIN v 1. ) JAHASRAT HOLDINGS SDN BHD 2. ) NOR HARYANTI BINTI MOHAMAD 3. ) MOHD HAFIZ BIN MOHAMAD 4. ) MOHAMAD BIN YAHYA 5. ) NORASHIKEN BINTI MOHAMED 6. ) ATON BINTI MD...
19 April 2026
MYHC