JUDGMENT

Gan Techiong JC:

Introduction

[1] The Plaintiff has filed this action, by way of a writ of summons, against four defendants in December 2024. The 4th Defendant is an advocate & solicitor. Some four months later in April 2025, the Plaintiff filed an application pursuant to O 15 r 6 Rules of 2012 for leave to add two advocates & solicitors, who are partners of the same law firm as the 4th Defendant, as the 5th Defendant and 6th Defendant respectively. The existing defendants objected to the Plaintiff's application.

[2] After reading the cause papers and hearing submissions of counsel, I decided that this Court ought to exercise its discretion to allow the Plaintiff's said application to add Kursiah Sharmini binti Hassan as the 5th Defendant and Solahuddin bin Zainal Ariffin as the 6th Defendant. They are both partners of the existing 4th Defendant practising law under the name of Messrs. Sulaimi, Sharmini & Partners.

The Plaintiff's Submissions

[3] The Plaintiff adduced as evidence a letter dated 2 February 2024 issued by the Bar Council which confirms that the proposed defendants are partners of the same law firm as the 4th Defendant, ie Messrs. Sulaimi, Sharmini & Partners.

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