Spouses in a marriage that has broken down may consider judicial separation as an alternative to a divorce.

Our partner, John Chan, was recently interviewed by iProperty.com.my for the article titled "When can you take a property developer to court in Malaysia?"

Menara Rajawali is a mixed development comprising 208 residential, retail and car park parcels. Our client Muhamad Nazri bin Muhamad was an individual parcel owner.

The Federal Court case of PJD Regency Sdn Bhd v Tribunal Tuntutan Pembeli Rumah & Anor and other appeals (grounds of judgment dated 19.1.2021) dealt with the law concerning the Housing Development...

Joint management bodies, management corporations, parcel owners and developers are regularly turning to the Strata Management Tribunal ("Tribunal") due to its efficiency...

To shed some light on this issue, we look at the relevant strata management laws and regulations.

In Malaysia, franchising is governed by the Franchise Act 1998 ("the FA 1998") and its objective is to create a thorough registration system to regulate the franchise business in the country.

On 7 June 2020, the Government announced that the CMCO will be replaced with the Recovery Conditional Movement Control Order from 10 June 2020 to 31 August 2020.

In this day and age, everyone is on some form of social media, be it Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

The Budget 2020 for Malaysia was recently tabled at the Dewan Rakyat in Parliament by YB Tuan Lim Guan Eng, Minister of Finance, on Friday, 11th October 2019.

Your main contractor has defaulted in its payments to you, the subcontractor. After several ignored demands, you initiated adjudication proceedings under CIPAA 2012 for the payments due to you.

It is common practice for employers to hire employees under fixed term contracts in Malaysia. A fixed term employment contract is a contract for a specific period of time only.

A scheme of arrangement is essentially an agreement made between a financially distressed company and its creditors on a debt-restructuring exercise to aid the company in paying its debts.

The sale and purchase agreement is the primary definitive document which governs the rights and obligations of developers and purchasers of properties.

Retention sum is a sum retained by an employer against interim sums payable to the contractors for work done and will be released to the contractor...

On 24.8.2021, the High Court had the opportunity to consider whether the Malaysian Federal Constitution discriminates against Malaysian mothers by disentitling them from passing down their Malaysian...

In early April 2020 it was reported by several online news portals in the United Kingdom that elderly patients who tested positive for coronavirus were pressured into signing Do Not Resuscitate forms.

RPGT is a tax chargeable on the profit gained from the disposal of a property and is payable to the Inland Revenue Board. As such, RPGT is only applicable to a seller.

The term Mergers and Acquisitions ("M&A") generally refers to the consolidation of companies or assets through different types of transactions. Over recent years, ...

The amendments came into force on 15 December 2018.