KOK PEEK BOON v AIA BERHAD

wa-22ncc-858-12-2024 High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) 5 May 2025 • WA-22NCC-858-12/2024

Catchwords

Civil Procedure — Affidavits — Defective affidavits — Plaintiff’s affidavit contain future events — Impugned affidavit to be used in the Plaintiff’s application to disallow or strike out Defendant’s Amended Defence and Counterlaim filed without leave after close of pleadings — Whether affidavit containing a bootstrap paradox or a causal loop is capable of being regularized — Whether the plaintiff should be allowed to have the defective affidavit re-sworn — Whether the defect in the plaintiff’s affidavit amounts to a mere irregularity that may be cured under Order 41 rule 4 & 7 of the Rules — Rules of Court 2012, O.1A, O.2 r.1, O.20 rr.1, 3, 4 & 5, and O.41 rr.4, 5, & 7.

Practice Areas

Civil Procedure

Judges (1)

Yusrin Faidz bin Yusoff Delivered

Parties (2)

AIA BERHAD Defendant Kok Peek Boon Plaintiff

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