Nallini Pathmanathan J:

[1]The plaintiff in this case, Malaysia Plastic Sdn Bhd (‘customer’) was a customer of the defendant, United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Bhd (‘the bank’) and maintained with it, several accounts. It has brought this suit against the bank in relation to eight cheques amounting to RM1,608,000 (‘disputed cheques’) which the customer has alleged were wrongfully and without authority paid out from the customer’s current account with the bank.

[2]The bank had, both prior to and after the issuance of these eight cheques, honoured by payment on presentation, several tens of cheques, totaling several hundred thousand ringgit. The majority of these cheques were legitimate or valid cheques that were