res judicata
8 cases · August 2025 to May 2026
Case Volume by Year
4 25
4 26
2025–2026
Key Issues & Sub-Topics
Issue estoppel — Judgment debt — Whether merits of summary judgment could be indirectly reopened in Fortuna injunction proceedings absent stay or setting aside of judgment 1 Issue estoppel — Judgment debt — Whether respondent barred from re-litigating matters already determined in judgment proceedings 1 Issue estoppel — Prior litigation involving different purchaser in same development project — Whether present action materially identical to earlier suit — Whether claims for fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation and fraudulent trading, supported by additional contemporaneous documents, could be said to have been concluded by earlier proceedings — Whether no real or practical difference between issues established on present record 1 it is incumbent upon this court to see whether issues, claims and reliefs in the Suit 2020 are akin to the present suit to determine whether res judicata applies or otherwise 1 Interlocutory order — Stay order not appealed — Whether subsequent application to set aside constitutes re-litigation — Abuse of process — Principle of finality. 1 Whether previous suit involving same parties and subject matter bars current claim — Identity of issues and parties — Whether insurers are privies to insured in earlier suit 1 breached the rule of natural justice — 2ND SET ASIDE THE FINAL AWARD — section 42 of the Arbitration Act 2005 — section 37 of the Arbitration Act 2005 — setting aside Application against an arbitral award can only enquire into the decision-making process of the arbitrator and not the decision in and of itself — section 37 of the Arbitration Act 2005 — Res ipsa of a ‘jurisdictional challenge’ — right to be heard in limine — term “public policy” within section 37 (1)(b)(ii) of the Arbitration Act 2005 — principle of estoppel per rem judicatam (or res judicata) — estoppel 1 Striking out — Plaintiffs memfailkan saman pemula baharu berhubung hak milikan dan injunksi ke atas hartanah yang sama yang telah diputuskan dalam prosiding terdahulu — Isu dan pihak-pihak adalah sama — Tindakan baharu terhalang oleh prinsip res judicata — Litigasi berganda menyalahi prinsip finality of litigation — Mahkamah menegaskan bahawa Aturan 18 r.19(1)(b) & (d) Kaedah-Kaedah Mahkamah 2012 membolehkan pliding dibatalkan jika ia remeh, menyusahkan atau suatu penyalahgunaan proses — Permohonan Defendan dibenarkan, saman pemula dibatalkan dengan kos. 1
Issue estoppel — Judgment debt — Whether merits of summary judgment could be indirectly reopened in Fortuna injunction proceedings absent stay or setting aside of judgment 1 case
Issue estoppel — Judgment debt — Whether respondent barred from re-litigating matters already determined in judgment proceedings 1 case
Issue estoppel — Prior litigation involving different purchaser in same development project — Whether present action materially identical to earlier suit — Whether claims for fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation and fraudulent trading, supported by additional contemporaneous documents, could be said to have been concluded by earlier proceedings — Whether no real or practical difference between issues established on present record 1 case
it is incumbent upon this court to see whether issues, claims and reliefs in the Suit 2020 are akin to the present suit to determine whether res judicata applies or otherwise 1 case
Interlocutory order — Stay order not appealed — Whether subsequent application to set aside constitutes re-litigation — Abuse of process — Principle of finality. 1 case
Whether previous suit involving same parties and subject matter bars current claim — Identity of issues and parties — Whether insurers are privies to insured in earlier suit 1 case
breached the rule of natural justice — 2ND SET ASIDE THE FINAL AWARD — section 42 of the Arbitration Act 2005 — section 37 of the Arbitration Act 2005 — setting aside Application against an arbitral award can only enquire into the decision-making process of the arbitrator and not the decision in and of itself — section 37 of the Arbitration Act 2005 — Res ipsa of a ‘jurisdictional challenge’ — right to be heard in limine — term “public policy” within section 37 (1)(b)(ii) of the Arbitration Act 2005 — principle of estoppel per rem judicatam (or res judicata) — estoppel 1 case
Striking out — Plaintiffs memfailkan saman pemula baharu berhubung hak milikan dan injunksi ke atas hartanah yang sama yang telah diputuskan dalam prosiding terdahulu — Isu dan pihak-pihak adalah sama — Tindakan baharu terhalang oleh prinsip res judicata — Litigasi berganda menyalahi prinsip finality of litigation — Mahkamah menegaskan bahawa Aturan 18 r.19(1)(b) & (d) Kaedah-Kaedah Mahkamah 2012 membolehkan pliding dibatalkan jika ia remeh, menyusahkan atau suatu penyalahgunaan proses — Permohonan Defendan dibenarkan, saman pemula dibatalkan dengan kos. 1 case
Key Statutes
Arbitration Act 2005 (Cap 646)
cited in 2 cases English Arbitration Act 1950
cited in 1 case Insolvency Act 1986
cited in 1 case Companies Act 2016
cited in 1 case Insolvency Act 1967 (Cap 360)
cited in 1 case Court Distribution
Key People & Firms
Top Judges
Raja Segaran a/l S.krishnan 3 Utama Wan Ahmad Farid bin Wan Salleh 1 Azimah binti Omar 1 Ahmad Zaidi bin Ibrahim 1 Wan Ahmad Farid bin Wan Salleh 1 Manira binti Mohd Nor 1 Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali 1 Alwi bin Abdul Wahab 1 Shahnaz binti Sulaiman 1 Avinder Singh Gill a/l Ranjit Singh 1 Shamsulbahri bin Haji Ibrahim 1
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