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
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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
b-02imncc-490-03-2023 Alliance Investment Bank Berhad v GULA PERAK BHD (DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
b-02imncc-491-03-2023 AMBANK (M) BERHAD v GULA PERAK BHD (DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
b-02imncc-492-03-2023 Malayan Banking Berhad v GULA PERAK BHD (DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
b-02imncc-493-03-2023 Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad v GULA PERAK BHD (DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
b-02ncca-1168-07-2023 1. ) Alliance Investment Bank Berhad 2. ) AmBank (M) Berhad 3. ) Malayan Banking Berhad 4. ) Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad v GULA PERAK BERHAD DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
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 cases
b-02imncc-490-03-2023 Alliance Investment Bank Berhad v GULA PERAK BHD (DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
b-02imncc-491-03-2023 AMBANK (M) BERHAD v GULA PERAK BHD (DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
b-02imncc-492-03-2023 Malayan Banking Berhad v GULA PERAK BHD (DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
b-02imncc-493-03-2023 Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad v GULA PERAK BHD (DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
b-02ncca-1168-07-2023 1. ) Alliance Investment Bank Berhad 2. ) AmBank (M) Berhad 3. ) Malayan Banking Berhad 4. ) Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad v GULA PERAK BERHAD DALAM LIKUIDASI)
29 October 2025
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
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
ma-28pw-119-09-2025 1. ) SAM NUR ARIF BIN SAM ABD MUTALIB 2. ) ABDUL NAIM BIN ROSLI 3. ) MUHAMMAD FIRDAUS GANESH VAIYAPURI 4. ) MOHAMMED FAUZI BIN MAT DIN 5. ) FLORANTE V. GARCIA 6. ) CAPT. WAI HTOO 7. ) ROHIM SUHERMAN 8. ) TUN TUN NAING 9. ) CAPT. BONEFASIUS KUDUS WATUN 10. ) ZULKIPLY BIN ADI v PROPETCO SDN BHD
29 March 2026
ma-24ncvc-81-03-2026 EMERALD UNITY SDN BHD v 1. ) RESIDENMAS DEVELOPMENT SDN BHD 2. ) MOHD NOOR BIN SIDEN
25 March 2026
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
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 case
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
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 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
Directors — Automatic vacation of office — Removal of directors — Nominee directors — Fiduciary duties — Office of profit — Disclosure of interests — Company constitution — Internal management — Board powers — Consent order — Procedural fairness — Locus standi — Arbitration — Interim injunctions. 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 — 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
Companies Act 2016 (Cap 777)
cited in 56 cases Rules of Court 2012
cited in 25 cases Companies Act 1965 (Cap 777)
cited in 12 cases Companies Act
cited in 7 cases Evidence Act 1950 (Cap 56)
cited in 6 cases Specific Relief Act 1950 (Cap 137)
cited in 4 cases Contracts Act 1950 (Cap 136)
cited in 4 cases Courts of Judicature Act 1964 (Cap 91)
cited in 3 cases UK Insolvency Act 1986
cited in 2 cases Arbitration Act 2005 (Cap 646)
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 Insolvency Act 1967 (Cap 360)
cited in 1 case Companies Act 1993
cited in 1 case Court Distribution
Key People & Firms
Top Judges
Suhendran Sockanathan 25 Raja Segaran a/l S.krishnan 20 Mohd Arief Emran bin Arifin 10 Muhammad Adam bin Abdullah 9 Mohamad Redzuan bin Idrus 8 Noradura binti Hamzah 7 Moh Kok Wai 6 Evrol Mariette Peters 5 Ravinthran a/l Paramaguru 5 Faizah binti Jamaludin 5 Muhammad Adam @ Edward bin Abdullah 4 Yusrin Faidz bin Yusoff 4 Mohd Radzi bin Harun 3 Zaharah binti Ibrahim 2 Panglima Richard Malanjum 2
Top Firms
Soo Thien Ming & Nasrah 5 Ezmeel & Co 5 Lee & Poh Partnership 3 Teja Singh Penesar & Co 3 Jasbeer, Nur & Lee 3 Cheang & Ariff 3 Rosli Dahlan Saravana Partnership 2 SL Lim & Lui 2 Bodipalar & Partners 2 Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill 2 Mak LK & Co 2 Damien Chan, Hannibal & Ng Chambers 2 M Scully 2 Azmi & Associates 2 Shafee & Co. 2
Top Lawyers
Cases
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