JUDGMENT

Hj. Abu Mansor bin Ali J:

By the plaintiff's application in enclosure (2) the plaintiff applied to have registered a foreign judgment which was the enforcement of an Arbitrator's Award exhibit "A-6" attached to enclosure (1). At the hearing of the arbitration proceedings the respondent did not appear despite due notice.

The debt arose as a result of distribution agreement entered between the defendant and Harris Corporation. The agreement was on 15 April 1987 and signed by the plaintiff in the United States and the defendant in Kuala Lumpur. As a result of products delivered by Harris Corporation to Perkom Sdn. Bhd., the defendant became indebted to Harris Corporation in the sum of RM538,000, the sum of the Award.

Thereafter by an agreement dated the 9 January 1990 Harris Corporation sold all their interest in this division of their business and assigned all their rights to the plaintiff Harris Adacom Corporation. The said agreement underwent some amendment as in "A-3" (pages 28 - 37).

There were exchange of letters after the assignment, between the defendant and Harris Corporation, and between the plaintiff personally and the respondent. When the respondent failed to p