Kota Kinabalu: Forty-six house buyers of Taman Bukit Saujana (Springfield Homes), here, finally won their 18-year battle for justice – the Federal Court decided that developer Yusen Jaya Sdn Bhd must pay them RM3.2 million.
The arbitral tribunal normally decides on the issues of relevance, admissibility and the weight to be attached to the evidence tendered at the hearing. As the tribunal is not bound by the general rules of evidence, most tribunals, in practice, adopt a flexible approach to the admissibility of evidence that may genuinely assist them in determining the dispute. This article is part of a series on conducting arbitration in Malaysia and, in particular, focuses on taking evidence.