Outcome: Question of law answered in the negative. The appeal was allowed with cost of RM40,000-00 to the appellant (the liquidator) subject to allocatur.
Outcome: The Federal Court found that there is no error in the finding of facts made by the learned judge where similarities ‘cannot be said to be substantial similarities that go to the root of the novel and the movie’. The Federal Court found that there was no justification for the Court of Appeal to ...
Outcome: (By the majority decision) When an independent claim in an adjudication process is deemed to be invalid, it does not necessarily follow that all dependent claims which refer to such independent claim will automatically fail. The invalidity notwithstanding, the trial court is still duty bound to ...