Restitution
6 cases · July 2025 to July 2026
Case Volume by Year
3 25
3 26
2025–2026
Key Issues & Sub-Topics
Unjust enrichment — Essential elements — Enrichment at plaintiff’s expense — Unjust factor — Absence of defence — Whether registered proprietor enriched by unlawful abstraction of electricity committed by another — Failure to prove enrichment. 1 Unjust enrichment — Discharge of defendant’s indebtedness to third party by plaintiff bank — Benefit received through payment under banker’s guarantee — Whether retention of benefit without reimbursement unjust. 1 Unjust enrichment — Whether repayment of withdrawn sum warranted — Benefit received by claimant — Equitable set-off — Money applied to discharge debt connected with claimant’s asset 1 Unjust enrichment — Failure of consideration Dishonest assistance — Knowing receipt — Constructive trust Illegality — Ex turpi causa — Public policy — In pari delicto Moneylenders Act 1951 — Unlicensed moneylending — Investment or loan Bankruptcy — Undischarged bankrupt — Sanction of Director General of Insolvency — Locus standi Anti–Money Laundering, Anti–Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 — Freezing of bank accounts Burden of proof — Fraud — Standard of proof — Sections 101 and 103 Evidence Act 1950 Clean hands doctrine — Equitable relief — Restitution denied Third party bank accounts — Control of account — Absence of benefit — No unjust enrichment Civil procedure — Claim dismissed — Costs — Allocatur 1 Unjust enrichment — Quantum meruit — Section 71 of the Contracts Act 1950 — Claim for reasonable compensation for services rendered — Where a valid and subsisting contract exists between the Appellant and a third party (AFSB) under which full payment was made, a claim under Section 71 or quantum meruit against a non-contracting party (the Government) is not available. 1 Unjust enrichment — Recovery of construction costs — Abandoned projects — Relevance of Land Ownership in Construction Claims — In a claim for restitution regarding the rehabilitation of property — whether a company in liquidation that is not the registered landowner is a suitable or necessary party to the proceedings. 1
Unjust enrichment — Essential elements — Enrichment at plaintiff’s expense — Unjust factor — Absence of defence — Whether registered proprietor enriched by unlawful abstraction of electricity committed by another — Failure to prove enrichment. 1 case
Unjust enrichment — Discharge of defendant’s indebtedness to third party by plaintiff bank — Benefit received through payment under banker’s guarantee — Whether retention of benefit without reimbursement unjust. 1 case
Unjust enrichment — Whether repayment of withdrawn sum warranted — Benefit received by claimant — Equitable set-off — Money applied to discharge debt connected with claimant’s asset 1 case
Unjust enrichment — Failure of consideration Dishonest assistance — Knowing receipt — Constructive trust Illegality — Ex turpi causa — Public policy — In pari delicto Moneylenders Act 1951 — Unlicensed moneylending — Investment or loan Bankruptcy — Undischarged bankrupt — Sanction of Director General of Insolvency — Locus standi Anti–Money Laundering, Anti–Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 — Freezing of bank accounts Burden of proof — Fraud — Standard of proof — Sections 101 and 103 Evidence Act 1950 Clean hands doctrine — Equitable relief — Restitution denied Third party bank accounts — Control of account — Absence of benefit — No unjust enrichment Civil procedure — Claim dismissed — Costs — Allocatur 1 case
Unjust enrichment — Quantum meruit — Section 71 of the Contracts Act 1950 — Claim for reasonable compensation for services rendered — Where a valid and subsisting contract exists between the Appellant and a third party (AFSB) under which full payment was made, a claim under Section 71 or quantum meruit against a non-contracting party (the Government) is not available. 1 case
Unjust enrichment — Recovery of construction costs — Abandoned projects — Relevance of Land Ownership in Construction Claims — In a claim for restitution regarding the rehabilitation of property — whether a company in liquidation that is not the registered landowner is a suitable or necessary party to the proceedings. 1 case
Key Statutes
cited in 1 case
Contracts Act 1950 (Cap 136)
cited in 1 case Government Proceedings Act 1956
cited in 1 case Contract Act 1950
cited in 1 case Federal Constitution
cited in 1 case Rules of Court 2012
cited in 1 case Moneylenders Act 1951
cited in 1 case Moneylending Act 1951
cited in 1 case Evidence Act 1950 (Cap 56)
cited in 1 case Insolvency Act 1967 (Cap 360)
cited in 1 case Court Distribution
Key People & Firms
Top Judges
Top Firms
Top Lawyers
Dato' Cyrus Das 1 Khairul Aiman bin Kamar Rozaman 1 Muhammad Azrul bin Abdul Hamid 1 Mahitra a/p P. Subramaniam 1 Norhaina binti Zulkifli 1 Ivy Chin 1 Lim Jian Heng 1 Andy Yeoh Tze Hwa 1 Chia Hui Ming 1 Yeoh Jie Hu 1 Rene Yap Ai Ping 1 Tan Zi Kang 1 Woo Jin Leang 1 Sim Khai Hung 1 Shaaleni Ravendran 1
Cases
ma-12bncvc-1-02-2026
LIM KEEM KOK & SONS REALTY SDN. BHD. v TENAGA NASIONAL BERHAD
8 July 2026
MYHC
ma-22ncc-7-05-2021
CIMB BANK BERHAD v GERAK JALINAN SDN BHD
18 June 2026
MYHC
ma-11b-13-10-2025
NG KIAN TEK v NG HUI JOO
4 May 2026
MYHC
wa-22ncvc-335-05-2021
1. ) TIONG WANG HOCK 2. ) SYLVESTER SAN MUN KIN v 1. ) SIN KIM KUAN 2. ) LOO WOOI KEONG 3. ) OOI HOOI ENG 4. ) LAU YIEN TOH 5. ) TEOH ENG WAH 6. ) LIEW SI MOY 7. ) CHA KOK SOON 8. ) LEE HSIN KEAT 9. ) CHAI VUI FOO 10. ) LIM CHUNG PHIN 11. ) AMY LOI RONG RONG 12. ) OOI AH ENG 13. ) LEONG SHUI MEI 14. ) KHAW CHENG HOE 15. ) SIN KAH MENG 16. ) TAN CHAI TONG 17. ) OOI TOOI SEH 18. ) TAN KEIT LEE 19. ) GAN YU CHAI 20. ) MVK DATA PROCESSING SDN BHD
27 November 2025
MYHC
w-01ncvcw-180-03-2024
GULAM WAWASAN SDN BHD v 1. ) Kerajaan Malaysia 2. ) KEMENTERIAN PERUMAHAN DAN KERAJAAN TEMPATAN 3. ) JABATAN PENGURUSAN SISA PEPEJAL NEGARA 4. ) Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Bin Mentek, Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian Perumahan Dan Kerajaan Tempatan 5. ) ISMAIL BIN MOKHTAR, KETUA EKSEKUTIF SOLID WASTE AND PUBLIC CLEANSING MANAGEMENT CORPORATION 6. ) SOLID WASTE AND PUBLIC CLEANSING MANAGEMENT CORPOR
20 November 2025
MYCOA
wa-28pw-111-02-2025
UNI CONSTRUCTION & REALTY SDN BHD v KUMPULAN BUMIKLAS SDN BHD (DALAM LIKUIDASI)
13 July 2025
MYHC