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Fadley Faisal An appeal by Sahid Sdn Bhd against a High Court award of MYR4,106,938.42 to Malaysian company ICE Petroleum Engineering Sdn Bhd was entirely dismissed by the Brunei Darussalam Court of Appeal on November 29. The appeal followed Brunei’s first ever court trial conducted virtually during the COVID-19 period in 2020 where ICE Petroleum […]
Fadley Faisal The case involving a family drug syndicate dubbed ‘Musang King’ was in court yesterday with new developments. Senior Magistrate Pengiran Masni binti Pengiran Haji Bahar fixed the case to undergo preliminary inquiry in December. Defence counsels Roy Prabhakaran and Pengiran Muhammad Khairul Nizam bin Pengiran Haji Mohd Yassin have discharged themselves from representing […]
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, March 1 (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): In a historic first in response to the ‘new normal’ environment of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Brunei High Court awarded a Malaysian company MYR4,106,938.42 in a claim against a Brunei company after a trial was conducted virtually over a week in October 2020.
On February 26, the High Court awarded the Malaysian company over MYR4 million in its claim against the Brunei company after the full trial was conducted virtually.
The Malaysian company’s initial claim against the Brunei company was for MYR7,821,855.41.
The award to the Malaysian company is for recovery of unjust benefits gained by the local company at the expense of the Malaysian company, as a result of the local company’s failure to pay the Malaysian company for work provided between December 2014 to October 2015, arising from a multimillion dollar subcontract between the Brunei company and another company in the oil and gas industry. The local comp