The Courts of Judicature (Amendment) Bill 2020 was passed by the Dewan Rakyat (the House of Representative) on 26 August 2020. This Bill seeks to amend the Courts of Judicature Act 1964 (“Act”) that would allow court proceedings in the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court (“the Courts”) to be televised live or through video streaming or using any other electronic communication media.

The Courts of Judicature (Amendment) Bill 2020 was passed by the Dewan Rakyat (the House of Representative) on 26 August 2020. This Bill seeks to amend the Courts of Judicature Act 1964 (“Act”) that would allow court proceedings in the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court (“the Courts”) to be televised live or through video streaming or using any other electronic communication media.

With the gazettement of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2020 (the “Amendment Act”) on 20 February 2020 and its partial coming into force on 1 January 2021...

ALL registered EUTMs and RCDs will be automatically cloned into separate UK registrations at the UKIPO, with brand new registration numbers however, it is possible to cancel the cloned UK registration if you do not require UK protection. The opt-out procedure will be available from 1 January 2021.

We previously issued an alert discussing the potential impact and effectiveness of the Temporary Measures for Reducing the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Bill 2020. The long wait is now over and the Temporary Measures for Reducing the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Act 2020 (the “Act”) has finally been gazetted and came into effect on 23 October 2020 where Malaysia is now hit with its third (and possibly worst) wave of infections.

The Courts of Judicature (Amendment) Bill 2020 was passed by the Dewan Rakyat (the House of Representative) on 26 August 2020. This Bill seeks to amend the Courts of Judicature Act 1964 (“Act”) that would allow court proceedings in the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court (“the Courts”) to be televised live or through video streaming or using any other electronic communication media.

The current unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with the Movement Control Orders (MCO) imposed by the Malaysian government, have a sweeping influence across different industries, impacting big corporations and small enterprises alike. A major issue affecting various companies is performance of their contractual obligations pursuant to their written contracts.

The Ministry of Commerce, the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has announced that the "Soft Opening Period" for the trademarks registration process under Myanmar’s new trademark law

The long-overdue Malaysian version Covid-19 bill, titled Temporary Measures for Reducing the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Bill 2020 (“the Bill”), was finally tabled for the first reading in Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of Parliament, on 12 August 2020. The Bill has come quite late in the day after contracting parties were faced with the predicament of now revisiting their force-majeure clauses (or the absence of the same).