Judge had erred, rules Court of Appeal

PUTRAJAYA: A High Court judge was wrong in not disqualifying herself from hearing a suit in which businessman Datuk Tan Kim Hor was seeking to stop four subsidiaries of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd from removing him as a director, the Court of Appeal ruled. 

In allowing Kim Hor’s appeal, the three-men bench comprising Court of Appeal judges Justices Gopal Sri Ram, Richard Malanjum and S. Augustine Paul set aside the orders of the High Court judge and awarded cost of the appeal and proceedings below to Kim Hor.