Legal Updates

1 August 2025 STAMPING OF EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS: COMPLIANCE WITH THE STAMP ACT 1949 In light of the Inland Revenue Board’s (“IRB”) Press Release dated 6 June 2025 (“Press Release”), employers are reminded of their legal obligations to duly stamp all employment contracts in accordance with the Stamp Act 1949. Part A: Employment contracts must be […]

31 July 2025 CROSS-BORDER INSOLVENCY BILL 2025 The Cross-Border Insolvency Bill 2025, tabled and passed by the House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat) on 29th July 2025, contains provisions aimed at providing effective and global mechanism for cooperative border insolvency proceedings based on UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency. We summarise in this Client Alert some […]

29th May 2025 Introduction In line with recent amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010, Act 709 (“PDPA”), the Personal Data Protection Commissioner (“Commissioner”) has issued two important sets of guidelines on 25 February 2025, namely (a) the Guideline on Appointment of Data Protection Officer (“DPO Guideline”), and (b) the Guideline on Data Breach […]

23 November 2023 The Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023, tabled in Parliament for first reading, contains provisions aimed at strengthening both the existing corporate rescue provisions to assist companies with financial difficulties post Covid 19-pandemic and the policy regarding beneficial ownership reporting framework. We set out in this Client Alert some of the proposed amendments to […]

02 November 2023 Since our Client Alert of 7.3.2023 highlighting the changes in the discharge from small scale debt bankruptcies, further changes to the bankruptcy regime have taken place.  The Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2023 was tabled and passed by Parliament.  Now known as the Insolvency (Amendment) Act 2023 (“the Act”), it came into force on […]

03 April 2023 INTRODUCTION Termination may relieve a party from future obligations. However, it does not relieve a party from obligations or liability accrued pre-termination, unless clear and unequivocal words are stipulated to that effect. In Triple Point Technology Inc v PTT Public Company Limited [2021] UKSC 29 (“Triple Point v. PTT”), the UK Supreme […]

07 March 2023 At the recent budget presentation of the Belanjawan 2023 initiative, the Prime Minister announced that bankruptcy cases with debts of less than RM50,000.00 will be discharged immediately with effect from 1.3.2023. Based on the Guidelines issued by the Malaysian Department of Insolvency for the discharge of bankruptcy under small-scale debts (w.e.f 1.3.2023), […]

29 December 2022 COCKETT MARINE OIL (ASIA) PTE LTD V. MISC BERHAD In the recent Court of Appeal’s decision of Cockett Marine Oil (Asia) Pte Ltd v. Misc Berhad [2023] 1 CLJ 20 [“Misc Berhad”], the Court of Appeal reversed the decision of the High Court (see: [2022] 8 MLJ 786) to grant an anti-arbitration […]

09 November 2022 The World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) has issued a notice dated 14 October 2022 informing that the 12th Edition of the Nice Classification will enter into force on 1 January 2023. A number of changes have been made to the goods and services classified under the 12th Edition of the Nice Classification which […]

23 September 2022 In our Client Alert of 27.7.2022, some of the significant changes to the provisions of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964 as follows, were highlighted: (a)     there will no longer be any appeal to the High Court against the decision of a subordinate court to dismiss a summary judgment or striking out […]