Shinith Palolathil

Person 1 case

Shinith Palolathil appeared as a party in the following Malaysia court case:

ba-11bncvc-23-08-2024

SHINITH PALOLATHIL v ANURA BANDARA HERATH

MYHC 15 May 2025

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About Shinith Palolathil

Shinith Palolathil appears as a party in 1 judgment in the MY Case Law database, spanning May 2025 to May 2025. Shinith Palolathil appeared as appellant in 1 case. Cases span the High Court (1).

How many court cases involve Shinith Palolathil?

Shinith Palolathil appears in 1 published judgment from May 2025 to May 2025. Most commonly as appellant (1 cases).

Practice Areas

This appeal arises from a dispute that is as personal as it is legal. It relates to the designing and funding of a kitchen renovation between two individuals once on close terms. At its heart lies a simple but contested question of whether the funding of the renovation was undertaken pursuant to an oral binding agreement for reimbursement or was it a generous, perhaps impulsive, gesture made without expectation of repayment. The Appellant/Plaintiff contended that it was the former, in that he undertook the funding of the renovation at the request of the Respondent/Defendant and his wife, based on an understanding that he would be repaid. The Respondent/Defendant, on the other hand, insisted that there was no such agreement, and that if the Appellant chose to incur the cost, he did so voluntarily, without any promise or expectation of reimbursement. As is often the case in civil litigation, this appeal turns on two irreconcilable narratives. The task before the Magistrate was to assess which version was more credible in light of the documentary and oral evidence presented. The credibility of witnesses, the plausibility of the parties’ accounts, and the conduct of both parties before and after the renovation all bore upon the court's ultimate finding. This Court is tasked with evaluating whether the Appellant/Plaintiff has shown any appealable error justifying the reversal of the Magistrate’s decision by way of re-hearing. 1

Appellant (1)

ba-11bncvc-23-08-2024 MYHC

SHINITH PALOLATHIL v ANURA BANDARA HERATH

15 May 2025