JUDGMENT

Isa Aziz Ibrahim JC:

Introduction

[1] Enclosure 74 was a Notice of Application dated 23 September 2025 ("NA") filed by the Defendants to amend their Defence dated 7 September 2023 (Enclosure 7).

[2] The said NA was filed on 23 September 2025 and heard on 25 September 2025 on an urgent basis. The reason for the urgency was that the ongoing status of the case was already in the midst of trial (part heard since April 2025), of which the Plaintiff had already closed her case.

[3] To be precise, the intention to amend the Defence was first disclosed by the Senior Federal Counsel to the Court at the stage where the Defendants' second witness was in the midst of testifying on 23 September 2025.

[4] I dismissed the said NA with costs of RM5,000.00 on 25 September 2025. For the record, I thereafter instructed for the trial to continue on the following dates:

3 November 2025 28 November 2025 27 January 2026

4 November 2025 4 December 2025 28 January 2026

10 November 2025 19 December 2025

11 November 2025 26 January 2026

a collective total of 10 more trial days.

[5] For the record, the trial of the matter had already proceeded for 8 days before Justice Mohd Radzi bin Abdul Hamid (as he then wa