CIVIL PROCEDURE : Injunction
4 cases · February 2025 to October 2025
Key Issues & Sub-Topics
Interlocutory mandatory injunction — High threshold — Whether applicant required to establish unusually strong and clear case — Distinction between prohibitory and mandatory injunction — Mandatory injunction — Degree of assurance — Whether court slow to grant mandatory relief where validity of underlying contract seriously disputed — Equity — Injunction — Adequacy of damages — Commercial dispute — Quantifiable loss — Whether damages constitute adequate remedy — Mere commercial inconvenience not irreparable harm. 1 Fortuna injunction — Application to restrain filing of winding up petition — Statutory notice of demand based on adjudication decisions — Whether debt disputed on substantial grounds — Whether cross-claim rendered debt disputed — Whether balance of convenience lies in favour of granting injunction 1 Fortuna injunction — Restraint of winding-up petition — Balance of convenience — Whether abuse of process — Whether evidence of afterthought claims sufficient to establish dispute — Two-limb test for Fortuna injunction — Whether petition has no chance of success — Whether irreparable damage would result — Standard of proof for bona fide dispute — Timing of objections in commercial disputes — Whether claims of defective work raised after statutory notice relevant 1 Application for discovery — Whether there are documents for which discovery is sought — Whether documents are sufficiently set out — Whether documents are relevant — Whether documents are in the possession of the defendants and the third party — Rules of Court 2012, o. 24 r. 3, 7, 7A 1
Interlocutory mandatory injunction — High threshold — Whether applicant required to establish unusually strong and clear case — Distinction between prohibitory and mandatory injunction — Mandatory injunction — Degree of assurance — Whether court slow to grant mandatory relief where validity of underlying contract seriously disputed — Equity — Injunction — Adequacy of damages — Commercial dispute — Quantifiable loss — Whether damages constitute adequate remedy — Mere commercial inconvenience not irreparable harm. 1 case
Fortuna injunction — Application to restrain filing of winding up petition — Statutory notice of demand based on adjudication decisions — Whether debt disputed on substantial grounds — Whether cross-claim rendered debt disputed — Whether balance of convenience lies in favour of granting injunction 1 case
Fortuna injunction — Restraint of winding-up petition — Balance of convenience — Whether abuse of process — Whether evidence of afterthought claims sufficient to establish dispute — Two-limb test for Fortuna injunction — Whether petition has no chance of success — Whether irreparable damage would result — Standard of proof for bona fide dispute — Timing of objections in commercial disputes — Whether claims of defective work raised after statutory notice relevant 1 case
Application for discovery — Whether there are documents for which discovery is sought — Whether documents are sufficiently set out — Whether documents are relevant — Whether documents are in the possession of the defendants and the third party — Rules of Court 2012, o. 24 r. 3, 7, 7A 1 case
Court Distribution
Key People & Firms
Cases
aa-22ncvc-39-05-2025
HTMALTEC CONSULTANTS SDN. BHD. v CHOY KWAI YING
8 October 2025
MYHC
wa-24ncc-610-12-2024
PESAT BUMI SDN BHD v GEO HILL CONSTRUCTION SDN BHD
27 April 2025
MYHC
wa-24ncc-463-09-2024
Christine Resort Sdn Bd v Pachira Eco Garden Associates Sdn Bhd
5 February 2025
MYHC
wa-22ip-24-03-2024
ITS Testing Services (M) Sdn Bhd v 1. ) DP Fluiteq Sdn. Bhd. 2. ) Dev Menon A/L Gopalan 3. ) Peter Chang Ngi Lee 4. ) Murugan A/L Selvaraj PIHAK KETIGA DICADANGKAN Carigali-PTTEPI Operating Company Sdn Bhd
2 February 2025
MYHC