Harmindar Singh J

[1]The Torrens system of land registration embodied in the National Land Code (‘NLC’) was meant to provide security and certainty of title for landowners in Malaysia. With the advent of the computerisation system of land registration in Malaysia, and which was begun in Perak sometime in 2001, the original manual title deed was to be replaced with a computerised one. Serious problems have however arisen in the implementation of this new system. If this case is any indication, some landowners in Perak will be having sleepless nights wondering if the titles they have in their possession are still valid because of the mischievous machinations and criminal inclinations of a few within and outside of the land registry.

[2]One such landowner is the plaintiff in the instant action. Despite having been in legal and physical possession of its land since 1994, and having the original manual issue document of title (‘IDT’) safely in its possession and custody, and having diligently paid its taxes and rates, the plaintiff now finds itself dispossessed of ownership of the land in so far as the Computerised Land Registration System (commonly referred to by its Bahasa Malaysia acro