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parte application, seeking for order search towards the plaintiff premises
to the high court of Shah Alam. The judge Tengku Maimun J, held that the
court is in view that the plaintiff has a strong prima facie case and there
are grounds to say that the documents sought were essential to the
plaintiffs case and that there was a danger that the defendants would
destroy the evidence in their possession.7 Due to these reasons, the court
granted the Anton Piller Order against the defendant since plaintiff has
satisfied all the required elements.
Even though plaintiff can be successfully apply for ex-parte Anton Piller
Order, but the defendant also has the right to make application to the
court for invalidation of the Anton Piller Order as granted by the previous
court against the defendant.
The application for invalidation of such order made by defendant can be
seen in one of latest case decided by Kota Kinabalu High Court in the case
of Fatimah Hiew Yen Won & Anor v Saroja A/P Palaniappan & Anor as
decided in 2011.8 In this case, court decided to put aside the ex-parte
order since the plaintiff failed to comply with 029 r 2A(d) in which he did
not state the likely defense of the in the affidavit as a support of the
application for the Anton Piller order. Since the affidavit for applying exparte Anton Piller was not properly entered, the court set aside the exparte application.9
1.2 Self-incrimination
According to the Wex Legal Dictionary, self-incrimination can be defined as
The act of implicating oneself in a crime or exposing oneself to criminal
prosecution.10 The self-incrimination normally occurs when suspect are
being interrogated or sometimes the person might disclosed the
7 Ibid, para 34.
8 Fatimah Hiew Yen Won & Anor v Saroja A/P Palaniappan & Anor [2011] MLJU
1168
9 Ibid, last para
Basically,
there
are
main
privileges
of
self-
are some other cases which held that those privileges are no longer exist
in Malaysian context.13
13 Television Broadcast Ltd v Mandarin Video Holdings Sdn Bhd [1989] 2 MLJ.