Raja Azlan Shah J:

This is an application by way of summons made under s. 162 of the Companies Act, 1965 for an order that the register of members be rectified by deleting the name of Low Hon as holder of 20 shares in the respondent company and inserting therein the name of the appellant. The said company is the first respondent, the last three respondents are administrators of the estate of Low Hon, who was the applicant's mother.

The applicant in her affidavit stated that in 1953 she was the registered owner of the disputed shares in the respondent company. Some time in September 1957 she went to one Wong Ah Chiew who was a director of the respondent company and informed him that as she was leaving the country to settle down in Singapore, she intended to give her mother, Low Hon, a limited power of attorney, that is, to collect the monthly allowances and the dividends arising from her shares. The applicant's mother later obtained a share transfer form and gave that to Wong Ah Chiew for the applicant to sign. Wong Ah Chiew then requested the applicant to sign the transfer form saying that it was to effect a power of attorney to enable her mother to collect the monthly al