Professional negligence in torts a study of on architects, engineers, building contractors and surveyors / Ruzita Khalid by Khalid, Ruzita

“…English Common Law formed part of the laws in Malaysia. The authority for the reception of this law of England into this country is provided under Section 3 of the Civil Law Act 1959 (Revised 1972). …”
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Paradigm shift or mere codification of law: a review of directors' duties in Malaysia by Azmi, Ruzita, Abd Razak, Adilah

“…Under common law, directors have a duty of care and skill, while directors’ fiduciary duties of loyalty and good faith evolved under equity. …”
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Earnings And Balance Sheet Conservatism In Malaysia: The Effect Of Malaysia's Convergence To International Financial Reporting Standards (Ifrs) by Marzuki, Marziana Madah, Abdul Wahab, Effiezal Aswadi

“…Earnings conservatism has been used extensively in common-law countries such as the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK), which are known to have good financial reporting quality. …”
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Alexandre Jacob, forçat anarchiste en Guyane : politique ou droit commun ? by Colombe de Dieuleveult

“…The issue of political offences and crimes, different from the common law offences, is characterized by its intricacy, not so much in terms of special treatment in the execution of the sentence but firstly, in terms of the legal definition of political offence. …”
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Human Earrings, Human Rights and Public Decency by Tarik Sabry

“…This article argues that the use of the common law offence of outraging public decency to attack art and artists (as it was in R v. …”
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Company Law by Koh, Alan K., Puchniak, Dan W., Tan, Cheng Han

“…Singapore’s common law-origin corporate law regime ranks highly on corporate law and governance indices and is administered in part by superior courts served by judges with significant commercial expertise. …”
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Corroboration under the Evidence Act 1950 and Islamic law: a comparative appraisal by Shair Mohamad, Mohd Akram,

“…As a general rule under the Malaysian Evidence Act 1950, which encapsulates the English common law, and unlike the situation in some civil law countries and Islamic law, evidences does not need to be supported to found a conviction on to prove a civil claim. …”
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Is the adversarial trial under the Malaysian Criminal Procedure Code compatible with Islamic Law? by Kamarudin, Abdul Rani

“…Likewise, this article will also discuss, and determine whether there are any fundamental similarities or irreconcilable differences between Islamic Law and the Malaysian Criminal Procedure Code which actually is based on Common Law. In other words, in a criminal proceeding, whether the adversarial trial under the Common Law is compatible with Islamic Law. …”
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Defence of abatement for defective works by Kiprawi, Mohamad Fairuz

“…Unlike set-off, abatement is a common law rights which can be used by all the parties in the industry without having to serve any early notice or need to be stated clearly in the conditions of contract. …”
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E-Business : An Islamic Perspective / by Hurriyah El-Islamy, author 572179

“…It covers not only the view of Malaysian common law but also the perspective of Islamic law.…”

Keeping up appearances: the development of adjudicatory jurisdiction in the English courts by Dickinson, A

“…The account provides, it is submitted, a number of valuable insights, which call into question current accounts of the common law rules governing both the adjudicatory jurisdiction of local courts and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. …”

A comparative survey of the status and application of Islamic Law in the legal system of Malaysia and Nigeria by Mokhtar, Khairil Azmin, Oba, Abdulmumini A

“…The reduction of the jurisdiction of Islamic law went together the gradual control of the administration of Islamic law by common law courts. British common law judges were often called upon to administer Islamic law as a matter of personal law and did so rather willingly. …”
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Validation of a Reform Project for Article 223 of The Ecuadorian Civil Code Through the Use Of Iadov Techniques and Neutrosophic Logic by Cristoval Fernando Rey Squilanda, Jorge Alfredo Eras Diaz, Simon Bolivar Gallegos Gallegos

“…The objective of this investigation is to validate a reform project for Article 223 of the Ecuadorian Civil Code, which implies the inclusion of a clause establishing that, in the case of controversies regarding the recognition of the common law, whoever demands the declaration of the common law, may request the precautionary measures on the profits that could correspond to him/her. …”
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Richard Epstein, strict liability, and the history of torts by Getzler, J

“…Epstein's strict liability model of tort law, first stated in 1973, relied on arguments derived from the history of the common law, starting with the late medieval period and extending into the nineteenth century. …”

Evolution of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and its Effects on Criminal Law by Gholam Hussein Elham, Rasul Abed

“…Among these approaches, the common law system was affected bythe proponent of right to bear arms, therefore, this right has been recognizedfor the people. …”
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Transforming a child’s claim for loss of earning capacity by Emile Zitzke

“…It is shown that such a claim involves a concurrent violation of the constitutional rights to bodily integrity and property which common-law thinkers call a person’s “personal immaterial property”. …”
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A GUIDE TO THE MALAYSIAN CODE OF PRACTICE ON : SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE / by Tengku Omar Tengku Bot, author 634958, Maimunah Aminuddin, author 216517

“…‘Sexual Harassment at the Workplace in Malaysia’ features the Malaysian courts’ approach towards the subject matter, with reference to statutory provisions, common law and Islamic law. The fundamental principles of the subject are explained in a clear, concise and organised manner.…”

A revival of the doctrine of attainder? the statutory illegality defences to liability in tort by Goudkamp, J

“…This article offers an analysis of these statutory defences and their relationship with the common law defence. It will be argued that the statutory defences blight an already highly unsatisfactory body of law.…”

The persistence of equity: lessons from the trust by McFarlane, B

“…This chapter aims to use the example of the trust to address the question that motivates this book: 150 years after the Judicature Act 1873, is there any reason (other than simple curiosity as to the historical origin of a particular rule or principle) to continue to distinguish between common law and equity? As well as examining the trust, and equity more generally, it considers a still broader question: does the role of equity today reveal anything of wider significance about the nature of English law, and therefore of the common law as applied in jurisdictions around the world? …”

Implied constitutional principles by Zhou, H

“…The most prevalent common law-based theories of change to Parliamentary sovereignty suggest that the courts can authoritatively determine if implied constitutional principles can check legislation. …”