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Workshop Overview In Malaysia, there is currently no explicit legislation that provides a legal framework for regulating the relationship between landlords and tenants, whether of residential, commercial, or industrial properties. The legal obligations and rights of the landlord and tenant are spelled out in a tenancy agreement entered into between the two parties, which is normally written but sometimes oral. In the event of a disagreement, common law, case law, civil law, contract law, and appropriate legislation controlling distress and the eviction procedure are used. However, many parties have raised several contentions to the proposed Residential Tenancy Act (RTA). One of [...]

The Second Schedule of the Strata Management Act 2013 only deals with the convening of general meetings, service of notice and agenda with relevant documents, and keeping of records, leaving a huge lacuna on the actual conduct and management of general meeting proceedings in strata schemes. Thankfully, the Malaysian Company Law can be referred to as a guide to fill in the lacuna and ambiguities. Join us to learn about the law of meetings, the procedural issues, drafting and moving of motions, drafting explanatory notes for motions, passing of special, ordinary, comprehensive, and unanimous resolutions, curbing defamatory statements, and the various [...]