JUDGMENT

Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera FCJ:

Introduction

[1] This appeal centres on the following main issues, namely:

(i) whether in the circumstances of this case, s 91(1)(b)(bb) of the Road Transport Act 1987 (" RTA ") operated to exclude the respondent's statutory liability under s 96(1) , such that it did not have to pay the appellant the benefit of a judgment he had obtained against the policy-holder at the Sessions Court ;

(ii) whether s 96(1) RTA permits the beneficiary of a judgment against an insured person to directly enforce the same against an insurer, in this case the respondent, without the need for a further judgment directly