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Aug
亚洲国际仲裁中心仲裁规则2021于8月1日生效。
The Asian International Arbitration Centre Arbitration Rules 2021 takes effect on 1 August 2021.
It is safe to say that the COVID-ridden years have not been too kind on housing developers in Malaysia. Not only are they forced to manage the uncertainty and unprecedented difficulty caused by the virus, but recent decisions from our superior Courts have also seemingly added salt into their wounds.
Once a successful party obtains an adjudication decision under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (CIPAA) 2012, the next course of action is usually to enforce the adjudication decision pursuant to section 28 of the CIPAA (enforcement order). Meanwhile, the losing party will often attempt to set aside or stay the adjudication decision under sections 15 or 16 of the CIPAA.
However, what if an application to stay is made after an enforcement order is granted against the adjudication decision and the application to set aside the adjudication decision is dismissed? The court was faced with this scenario in the recent case of MKP Builders Sdn Bhd v PC Geotechnic Sdn Bhd [(2021) MLJU 1061].