A case study on Malaysian property and gift law, and family members who become squatters. In Butterworth, Penang, nestled along a shaded street, stood a modest house—ordinary in its appearance, extraordinary in what it had come to represent. To Madam Leong Sook Yin, it was home. To her son Christopher and his wife, it had become […]
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A Cautionary Tale of Secret Trusts and Testamentary Wills
“He wanted the best for all his children… but he did not want all of them to know.” Act I: The Dying Man’s Last Wish In the final days of his life, Chin Joo Ngan lay frail and fading under the sterile lights of a hospital ward. A once-proud engineer who had built bridges and […]
Res Judicata in a Loan: The case of Asia Commercial Finance v. Kawal Teliti
KUALA LUMPUR – September 22, 1995. The courtroom was quiet, the air thick with the scent of old paper and the weight of unfinished business. On one side sat Asia Commercial Finance (M) Berhad, a company that had once been eager to fuel the dreams of a housing developer. On the other, Kawal Teliti Sdn Bhd, […]
Indefeasibility: The Fight for the Vanishing Land Title
In the quiet mukim of Batu, a parcel of land once stood as a widow’s last remaining legacy. Wong Har was not a rich woman—just someone who had held on to her little piece of Kuala Lumpur since 1975, when she bought it from a man named Yeap for RM55,000.
The Quiet Shift to Crypto Reserves in the Corporate Sector
I. The Whisper Before the Roar It started, as all tides do, with a ripple. In a quiet boardroom tucked within a high-rise in Kuala Lumpur, the CFO of Lembaran Digital Berhad tapped his pen against a leather-bound notepad. Surrounding him were other executives — risk officers, legal advisors, and treasury heads — poring over […]