Evidence
122 cases · May 2021 to July 2026
Case Volume by Year
1 21
4 24
33 25
84 26
2021–2026
Key Issues & Sub-Topics
Credibility of witness — Child witness — Uncorroborated evidence — Court may convict on uncorroborated evidence of child if "unusually convincing" — Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017, s 18 — Whether discrepancies in testimony material — Adverse inference — Failure to call material witnesses — Whether prosecution obliged to call every possible witness — Whether inference under s 114(g) Evidence Act 1950 warranted — Witnesses not eyewitnesses to sexual acts — No adverse inference drawn 5 Murder — Appeal by Appellants who were convicted and sentenced to death by HCJ — Conduct of Appellants and abusive relationship between Appellants and Deceased prior to her death — Whether amounted to bad character — Whether HCJ had erred in taking into consideration bad character of Appellants — Evidence Act 1950, sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 2 Murder — Appeal by Appellants who were convicted and sentenced to death by HCJ — Evidence adduced by the prosecution entirely circumstantial — Whether HCJ had appreciated the totality of the evidence in finding the Appellants guilty beyond a reasonable doubt 2 Burden of proof — Balance of probabilities — Failure to call expert witness (arborist) — Whether adverse inference drawn — Effect where res ipsa loquitur applies 2 Burden of proof — Whether plaintiff proved disputed monies belonged exclusively to it — Whether oral evidence and contemporaneous documents supported plaintiff's construction of agreement. 1 Burden of proof — Plaintiff succeeding on strength of own case — Circumstantial evidence — Inference from proved facts — Difference between legitimate inference and conjecture — Failure to identify wrongdoer — Documentary evidence — Contemporaneous records — Computer-generated documents — Section 90A Evidence Act 1950 — Admissibility of inspection photographs — Certificate under section 90A(2) — Primary and secondary evidence — Integrity of physical exhibits — Chain of custody — Weight of evidence. 1 Admissions — Statements made by company director in separate proceedings — Whether binding admissions against company — Representative capacity — Evidential weight. 1 Affidavit evidence — Conflicting factual accounts — Whether court may resolve competing evidence on preliminary issue. 1 Matrimonial proceedings — Duty of full and frank disclosure — Failure to disclose assets — Adverse inference — Section 114(g) Evidence Act 1950. 1 Affidavit evidence — Audio recordings — Police report — Credibility — Whether disputed evidence capable of determination without trial. 1 Documentary evidence — Police report — Exhibit P11 — Complainant's police report stated that accused asked for permission to touch for treatment purposes and complainant allowed — Whether report contradicted complainant's oral testimony — Whether report supported accused's defence — Section 7 Evidence Act 1950 1 Witnesses — Prosecution witness — SP4 — Witness present throughout treatment — Witness confirmed consent was given — Witness confirmed same treatment method used on her daughter with positive results — Whether evidence of prosecution witness could support accused's defence — Credibility of witness 1 Proof of service — Registered-post receipts — Tracking records — Statutory declaration of service — Whether sufficient to establish posting and deemed service. 1 Admissions — Signed loan agreement — Statutory declaration — Borrower’s acknowledgment of receipt of RM180,000 — Whether admission against interest constitutes substantive evidence of indebtedness — Effect of admissions on evidential burden of proof — Evidence Act 1950, ss 17, 18, 21. 1 Statutory declaration — Evidential value — Commissioner for Oaths — Alleged failure to explain contents of declaration — Non-compliance with Commissioners for Oaths Rules 2018 — Whether declaration rendered void or inadmissible — Whether signed acknowledgment remained admissible as admission notwithstanding procedural irregularity. 1 Admissions — Statutory declaration — First-person acknowledgment of receipt of money — Whether admissible independently of validity of jurat or attestation process — Evidence Act 1950, ss 17, 18, 21. 1 Credibility — Borrower advancing inconsistent defences — Denial of signature — Admission of signature — Alleged deception — Partial repayment — Whether shifting and contradictory accounts undermined credibility. 1 Adverse inference — Failure to call witnesses to cash transactions — Whether adverse inference should be drawn against lender — Evidence Act 1950, s 114(g). 1 Admissions — Emails originating from company’s admitted email account — Whether admissible as admissions under Evidence Act 1950 — Whether hearsay rule applicable — Sections 17–21 Evidence Act 1950. 1 Adverse inference — Failure to call material witness — Director alleged to have authorised transaction not called — Whether adverse inference to be drawn — Section 114(g) Evidence Act 1950. 1
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Credibility of witness — Child witness — Uncorroborated evidence — Court may convict on uncorroborated evidence of child if "unusually convincing" — Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017, s 18 — Whether discrepancies in testimony material — Adverse inference — Failure to call material witnesses — Whether prosecution obliged to call every possible witness — Whether inference under s 114(g) Evidence Act 1950 warranted — Witnesses not eyewitnesses to sexual acts — No adverse inference drawn 5 cases
ta-42jsksa-1-06-2025 ROSLI BIN ABD RAHMAN v Pendakwa Raya
7 June 2026
ta-42jsksa-2-06-2025 ROSLI BIN ABD RAHMAN v Pendakwa Raya
7 June 2026
ta-42jsksa-3-06-2025 ROSLI BIN ABD RAHMAN v Pendakwa Raya
7 June 2026
ta-42jsksa-4-06-2025 ROSLI BIN ABD RAHMAN v Pendakwa Raya
7 June 2026
ta-42jsksa-5-06-2025 ROSLI BIN ABD RAHMAN v Pendakwa Raya
7 June 2026
Murder — Appeal by Appellants who were convicted and sentenced to death by HCJ — Conduct of Appellants and abusive relationship between Appellants and Deceased prior to her death — Whether amounted to bad character — Whether HCJ had erred in taking into consideration bad character of Appellants — Evidence Act 1950, sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 2 cases
Murder — Appeal by Appellants who were convicted and sentenced to death by HCJ — Evidence adduced by the prosecution entirely circumstantial — Whether HCJ had appreciated the totality of the evidence in finding the Appellants guilty beyond a reasonable doubt 2 cases
Burden of proof — Balance of probabilities — Failure to call expert witness (arborist) — Whether adverse inference drawn — Effect where res ipsa loquitur applies 2 cases
ta-12b-7-04-2025 1. ) RAZLEEN BINTI AWANG (Menuntut sebagai balu yang sah kepada Mohd Amin Bin Ibrahim (simati), untuk gantirugi kesedihan, kehilangan tanggungan dan kerugian perbelanjaan di bawah Seksyen 7 Akta Undang-Undang Sibil 1956 (Pindaan) 2. ) XXXX v 1. ) ROADCARE (M) SDN BHD 2. ) Jabatan Kerja Raya Malaysia 3. ) Kerajaan Malaysia 4. ) PENGARAH JABATAN KERJA RAYA NEGERI TERENGGANU
26 January 2026
ta-12b-8-04-2025 1. ) Nur Zafirah binti Bazaredi 2. ) Norliza binti Mat Hassan v 1. ) Pengarah Jabatan Kerja Raya Negeri Terengganu 2. ) Jabatan Kerja Raya Malaysia 3. ) Kerajaan Malaysia 4. ) Roadcare (M) Sdn. Bhd.
26 January 2026
Burden of proof — Whether plaintiff proved disputed monies belonged exclusively to it — Whether oral evidence and contemporaneous documents supported plaintiff's construction of agreement. 1 case
Burden of proof — Plaintiff succeeding on strength of own case — Circumstantial evidence — Inference from proved facts — Difference between legitimate inference and conjecture — Failure to identify wrongdoer — Documentary evidence — Contemporaneous records — Computer-generated documents — Section 90A Evidence Act 1950 — Admissibility of inspection photographs — Certificate under section 90A(2) — Primary and secondary evidence — Integrity of physical exhibits — Chain of custody — Weight of evidence. 1 case
Admissions — Statements made by company director in separate proceedings — Whether binding admissions against company — Representative capacity — Evidential weight. 1 case
Affidavit evidence — Conflicting factual accounts — Whether court may resolve competing evidence on preliminary issue. 1 case
Matrimonial proceedings — Duty of full and frank disclosure — Failure to disclose assets — Adverse inference — Section 114(g) Evidence Act 1950. 1 case
Affidavit evidence — Audio recordings — Police report — Credibility — Whether disputed evidence capable of determination without trial. 1 case
Documentary evidence — Police report — Exhibit P11 — Complainant's police report stated that accused asked for permission to touch for treatment purposes and complainant allowed — Whether report contradicted complainant's oral testimony — Whether report supported accused's defence — Section 7 Evidence Act 1950 1 case
Witnesses — Prosecution witness — SP4 — Witness present throughout treatment — Witness confirmed consent was given — Witness confirmed same treatment method used on her daughter with positive results — Whether evidence of prosecution witness could support accused's defence — Credibility of witness 1 case
Proof of service — Registered-post receipts — Tracking records — Statutory declaration of service — Whether sufficient to establish posting and deemed service. 1 case
Admissions — Signed loan agreement — Statutory declaration — Borrower’s acknowledgment of receipt of RM180,000 — Whether admission against interest constitutes substantive evidence of indebtedness — Effect of admissions on evidential burden of proof — Evidence Act 1950, ss 17, 18, 21. 1 case
Statutory declaration — Evidential value — Commissioner for Oaths — Alleged failure to explain contents of declaration — Non-compliance with Commissioners for Oaths Rules 2018 — Whether declaration rendered void or inadmissible — Whether signed acknowledgment remained admissible as admission notwithstanding procedural irregularity. 1 case
Admissions — Statutory declaration — First-person acknowledgment of receipt of money — Whether admissible independently of validity of jurat or attestation process — Evidence Act 1950, ss 17, 18, 21. 1 case
Credibility — Borrower advancing inconsistent defences — Denial of signature — Admission of signature — Alleged deception — Partial repayment — Whether shifting and contradictory accounts undermined credibility. 1 case
Adverse inference — Failure to call witnesses to cash transactions — Whether adverse inference should be drawn against lender — Evidence Act 1950, s 114(g). 1 case
Admissions — Emails originating from company’s admitted email account — Whether admissible as admissions under Evidence Act 1950 — Whether hearsay rule applicable — Sections 17–21 Evidence Act 1950. 1 case
Admission — Taxpayer’s contemporaneous correspondence — Statement acknowledging claims made without GST due to perceived exemption — Whether admission inconsistent with alleged joint venture relationship — Evidence Act 1950, s 58. 1 case
Audio recording — Audio transcription — Objection to adducing recording and transcription at trial — Recording and transcription exhibited to affidavit not expunged by earlier court order — Whether interlocutory order expunging affidavit operated to exclude recording and transcription from trial — Whether admissibility, authenticity and weight matters for trial court — Evidence Act 1950, ss 3, 62, 90A 1 case
Documentary evidence — Computer-generated document — Audio recording transferred to computer and copied onto DVD — Requirement of authentication and statutory foundation — Whether admissibility to be determined at trial — Evidence Act 1950, s 90A 1 case
Covert recording — Recording made without consent — Whether lack of consent rendered recording inadmissible — Whether issue of admissibility to be determined at trial 1 case
Affidavit Evidence — Uncontroverted evidence — Weight to be attached to uncontested affidavits — Court’s continuing obligation to evaluate evidence notwithstanding absence of dispute. 1 case
Hearsay — Statements allegedly made by deceased witnesses to investigating officer — Non-production of statements recorded under s 112 Criminal Procedure Code — Whether investigating officer's evidence admissible to prove ownership of bag containing drugs. 1 case
Contradiction of witnesses — Investigating officer testifying that occupants of house identified bag as belonging to accused — Prosecution witness testifying she never saw accused carrying bag and first saw bag at police station — Whether contradiction material. 1 case
Fingerprint analysis — Failure to conduct or produce forensic examination of exhibits — Circumstantial case depending on inference of possession — Whether omission materially weakened prosecution case. 1 case
Key Statutes
Evidence Act 1950
cited in 21 cases Rules of Court 2012
cited in 12 cases Contracts Act 1950
cited in 9 cases Companies Act 2016 (Cap 777)
cited in 3 cases Penal Code (Cap 574)
cited in 3 cases Criminal Procedure Code (Cap 593)
cited in 3 cases Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (Cap 234)
cited in 2 cases Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023
cited in 1 case Federal Constitution
cited in 1 case Defamation Act 1957
cited in 1 case Specific Relief Act 1950 (Cap 137)
cited in 1 case National Land Code (Cap 828)
cited in 1 case Stamp Act 1949 (Cap 378)
cited in 1 case EPF Act 1991
cited in 1 case EPF Act
cited in 1 case Court Distribution
Key People & Firms
Top Judges
Raja Segaran a/l S.krishnan 32 Yusrin Faidz bin Yusoff 29 Moh Kok Wai 13 Mahazan binti Mat Taib 8 Avinder Singh Gill a/l Ranjit Singh 6 Mohd Radzi bin Harun 4 Shamsulbahri bin Haji Ibrahim 3 Shamsul Bahrin bin Abdul Manaf 3 Azhahari Kamal bin Ramli 3 Kan Weng Hin 3 Jamhirah binti Ali 2 Muhammad Adam @ Edward bin Abdullah 2 Muhammad Adam bin Abdullah 2 Mohd Arief Emran bin Arifin 2 Su Tiang Joo 2
Top Firms
Murugesan Sinnandavar & Association 5 Pejabat Penasihat Undang-Undang Negeri Terengganu 4 CK Lim Law Chambers 2 Shook Lin & Bok 2 Peters Chambers 2 Rajagopal & Co. 1 Azhier Arisin & Co 1 Richard Wee Chambers 1 Horley Isaacs & Associates 1 KS Chew & Associates 1 SL Lim & Lui 1 Raja Seelan & Associates 1 CH Yeap Maluda Cheh 1 Yusfarizal Aziz & Zaid 1 Azam Baba & Aqmar 1
Top Lawyers
Rajenthira Kumar 5 S. Murugesan 5 Noradila Binti Ab Latif 4 Lim Choon Khim 2 Nur Atifah Binti Manaf 2 Tan Gian Chung 2 Jude Peters 2 Dinesh Kannen 2 David Yii Hee Kiet 1 Nurul Idayu Binti Harun 1 Remi Pereira 1 Nik Mohd Fadli bin Nik Azlan 1 Mohd Azhier Farhan Bin Arisin 1 Leong Zhi Hong 1 Lim Yi Xuan 1
Cases
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ORG VS SDN BHD v ZHOU JIANMEI
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