News by Tarani Palani

The Court of Appeal has upheld a judge's ruling last year that a developer owed a duty of care to the joint management body (JMB) of a condominium in Subang over defects affecting common property.

The appeal brought by three disgruntled farmers to reinstate the state government, the Selangor menteri besar, and the Kuala Langat district land administrator into their main civil action, lacked merit and was obviously not sustainable.

The late Tun Daim Zainuddin’s widow has once again hauled Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to court, this time challenging the latest seizure of Ilham Tower.

A government valuation property expert said that she relied on planning or zoning information gazetted by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), while the private valuer for the plaintiff of the "Duta enclave" land had made conjunctures on possible future development.

A government property valuation expert continued to testify on Thursday on how her valuation methods differed from the private valuer’s, over the long-standing "Duta enclave" land dispute.

FGV Holdings Bhd’s former chairman Tan Sri Mohd Isa Abdul Samad and its former chief executive Datuk Mohd Emir Mavani Abdullah wrongfully used two luxury condominium units acquired by the company, the High Court ruled on Friday.

The Sessions Court has allowed Hydroshoppe Sdn Bhd director Datuk Abdul Hamid Shaikh Abdul Razak Shaikh's passport to be returned temporarily for him to attend work-related engagements in the US and Germany.

Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow is suing business tycoon Tan Sri Tan Kok Ping over the latter's remarks, made in October last year, about a state land sale.

Dissatisfaction over a government decision alone is not the basis to take the government to court, the High Court here remarked on Thursday.

The government is seeking to strike out a lawsuit revolving around the cancellation of the RM110 billion High-Speed Rail (HSR) project between Malaysia and Singapore, on the grounds that public policy decisions are a non-justiciable matter in any court and plaintiff Mohd Hatta Sanuri has no legal right to initiate the suit.