Lamin Mohd Yunus PCA:

[1] 4 November 1995: This is an appeal by the first and the third defendants against the decision of the judge of the High Court who on 31 December 1993, found them guilty of contempt. They were sentenced on 28 January 1994. The first defendant was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment and a RM20,000 fine in default six months' imprisonment for the offence of disobedience of the Court order as per the plaintiffs' application for committal in encl 27. For the offence of evading the service of the same order as per the plaintiffs' application for committal in encl 102, he was also sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment and a RM20,000 fine in default six months' imprisonment. The third defendant, on the other hand, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for each of the two offences. They were to run concurrently.

(The second defendant was absent throughout the whole proceedings before the Court below.)

[2] For the purposes of the present appeal, we refer to the first defendant [Houng Hai Hong] as the first appellant and the third defendant [Wee Choo Keong] as the second appellant.

[3] Upon reading the records and hearing the arguments before us, we were unanim