Lim; Ponniah
| Jurisdiction | Malaysia |
| Year | 1960 |
| Court | High Court (Malaysia) |
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9 cases
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Aurol Anthony Sabastian v Sembcorp Marine Ltd
...where the complainant may allow his 'private passions and prejudices to creep into the conduct' of a criminal appeal (Ponniah v Lim [1960] MLJ 152). A private prosecution is a prosecution by a private individual which, if successful, relies on the state machinery to mete out the sentence im......
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Marites Dela Cruz Martinez v Public Prosecutor and another
...[1988] 2 SLR(R) 110. In that case Lai J held at [9] that “as a matter of principle, it must be recognised as it was in Ponniah v Lim [1960] MLJ 152, that the interests of the State in a criminal matter which are entrusted to the Public Prosecutor are not always the same as those of a compla......
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2 books & journal articles
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Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Sentencing
...where the complainant may allow his ‘private passions and prejudices to creep into the conduct’ of a criminal appeal (Ponniah v Lim[1960] MLJ 152). A private prosecution is a prosecution by a private individual which, if successful, relies on the state machinery to mete out the sentence imp......
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Administrative and Constitutional Law
...the complainant might allow his “private passions and prejudices to creep into the conduct” of a criminal appeal, citing Ponniah v Lim[1960] MLJ 152. He said (at para 16) that a private prosecution was a prosecution by a private individual which, if successful, relied upon the state machine......