SOH SIEW LAN vs KOH ZOO KWEE & ANOR

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2023 MarsdenLR 1949

HIGH COURT MALAYA KUALA LUMPUR
SOH SIEW LAN – Appellant
Versus
KOH ZOO KWEE & ANOR – Respondent

Petitioner Advocates:Foo Wen Cong ,Respondent Advocate: SP Soo Hoo,Tan Jun Jie

Table of Content
1. dismissal of originating summons (Para 1)
2. plaintiff's fishing expedition criticized (Para 2 , 3 , 4 , 5)
3. plaintiff's role and claims outlined (Para 6 , 7 , 8)
4. defendant's denial of allegations (Para 10 , 11 , 12)
5. legal standards for pre-action discovery (Para 15 , 16)
6. fishing expedition grounds for dismissal (Para 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21)
7. hunch or intuition not grounds for discovery (Para 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26)
8. frivolous applications abuse of process (Para 27 , 28 , 29)
9. company documents and separate legal personality (Para 31 , 32)
10. documents must be specified and relevant (Para 33 , 34 , 35 , 36)
11. irrelevance of certain documents (Para 38 , 39 , 40)

Leong Wai Hong JC:

Introduction

[1] I had dismissed the plaintiff's Originating Summons application for Pre-Action discovery pursuant to O 24 r 7A(1) of the Rules of Court 2012 on 18 August 2023 with costs of RM5,000 to the 1st defendant subject to allocatur.

[2] Essentially, I held that the plaintiff was on an Ekspedisi Memancing or in the English language a fishing expedition as the plaintiff was asking for 12 categories of documents from 14 companies from 1 January 2015 to August 2023, a period of

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2023 MarsdenLR 1949

HIGH COURT MALAYA KUALA LUMPURSOH SIEW LAN – AppellantVersusKOH ZOO KWEE & ANOR – Respondent

Cases Referred (5)

HIGH COURT MALAYA KUALA LUMPUR
SOH SIEW LAN – Appellant
Versus
KOH ZOO KWEE & ANOR – Respondent