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Material Litigation

Back 14 Feb 2012
Date Announced
:
14/02/2012  



Type
:
Announcement
Subject
:
MATERIAL LITIGATION

Description
:
AXIATA GROUP BERHAD (“AXIATA”)
PENGURUSAN DANAHARTA NASIONAL BERHAD AND 2 OTHERS VS TAN SRI DATO’ TAJUDIN RAMLI (“TSDTR”) (BY ORIGINAL CLAIM), TSDTR VS CELCOM (MALAYSIA) BERHAD (“CELCOM”), TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES INDUSTRIES BERHAD (“TRI”) AND 36 OTHERS (BY COUNTERCLAIM)

Announcement Details/Table Section :

Axiata refers to the announcement dated 7 December 2009 and wishes to announce that TSDTR had today applied to withdraw the appeals filed to the Court of Appeal against the following High Court’s decisions:-

  1. Allowing TRI and Celcom’s appeal against the decision of the Senior Assistant Registrar (“SAR”) in dismissing TRI and Celcom’s application to strike-out the amended counterclaim of TSDTR (“ Striking-Out Appeal”), and
  2. Allowing TRI and Celcom’s appeal against the decision of the SAR in allowing the re-amendment of TSDTR’s Amended Counterclaim for TSDTR to join 11 present or former directors and officers of TRI and Celcom as defendants in this matter (“Joinder/Amendment Appeal”).

Following the withdrawal of the above appeals, the Court of Appeal consequently ordered:-
  1. The appeals to be struck-out;
  2. TSTDR to pay cost of RM10,000.00 to each respondent for the Striking-Out Appeal; and
  3. TSTDR to pay cost of RM5,000.00 each to each respondent for the Joinder/Amendment Appeal.

This announcement is dated 14 February 2012.