EWE KHAY GUAN vs CHIN OI KHIUN - 2023 MarsdenLR 1991

Judicial Analysis Court Copy Headnote Facts Arguments Court observation

Petitioner Advocates:,Respondent Advocate:

Table of Content
1. introduction of the appeal and court's decision timeline. (Para 1 , 2)
2. details of the application for document discovery. (Para 3 , 4)
3. background facts of the marriage and issues. (Para 5)
4. relevance of the documents in assessing financial capacity. (Para 6 , 7 , 9)
5. necessity of documents for fair proceedings. (Para 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15)
6. petitioner's objections to the discovery application. (Para 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24)
7. irrelevance of requested documents to the case. (Para 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30)
8. arguments against the necessity of financial documents. (Para 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36)
9. further objections to the relevance of requested documents. (Para 39 , 41 , 42 , 43)
10. court's analysis of the discovery application. (Para 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56)
11. importance of financial documents in divorce proceedings. (Para 58 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63)
12. legal framework governing discovery in malaysia. (Para 66 , 67 , 68)
13. court's final decision on the discovery application. (Para 69)

Azizan Md Arshad JC:

Introduction

[1] This is an appeal against the decision of this court in allowing an application (Encl 15) by Chin