Eusoffe Abdoolcader SCJ:

The respondent is a football player registered with the Selangor Football Association which is a member of the Football Association of Malaysia (`the Association') and was at all material times a member of the national football team selected to represent the country in the Asian Games held in South Korea in September 1986. He was summoned, on a charge of having committed gross misconduct and bringing the game into disrepute in that he had instigated some members of the national team to deliberately lose the game against Saudi Arabia at Kwangju Stadium in South Korea on 21 September 1986 and also offered the sum of RM5,000 to each of them for Malaysia to lose by a two-goal margin, to appear before the Executive Committee of the Association which held an enquiry into the allegation and duly found the charge proved and the respondent guilty, and imposed on him the penalty of suspension for life from playing, coaching or holding any office in any association or club participating in any tournament or competition organised by the Association.

The respondent as a result instituted proceedings by way of originating summons on a number of grounds for a dec