A and B fought out a dispute in a foreign court. At the end of it, one party won, while the other is left to sulk in a corner. Can the party who is sulking relitigate the matter locally? Let us find out by briefly looking at the recent High Court (Sibu) case of Wong…
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Are contempt proceedings separate and distinct proceedings from the main proceedings? For example, does it mean that if a person is charged in a criminal court (in the main proceedings), any conduct which gives rise to a contempt of court automatically becomes a criminal contempt? This issue was briefly dealt with in the Court of…
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What is judicial notice? Judicial notice or judicial cognisance is defined as follows: “Judicial notice refers to facts which a judge can be called upon to receive act to act upon either from his general knowledge of them or from inquiries to be made by himself for his own information from sources to which it…
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