| Tighten rules to prevent land scams, govt urged |
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| Friday, 16 March 2007 09:01am | |
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Chairman of the Conveyancing Practice Committee of the Bar Council, Roger Tan,
said the original owner, clueless about the sale, was not given any
compensation. Comments (2)
From Bad to Worse written by Nicole Tan Lee Koon, Friday, March 16 2007 07:03 pm
The land office delivery system is getting from bad to worse. Look at the recent case of a syndicate hacking into the land office computer system: Write comment
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Adorna Properties Sdn Bhd vs Boonsom Boonyanit upheld the principle of equity's darling and will remain a case with which many Malaysian law students over the next few decades will be familiar.
It is a glaring case where the State, through the judiciary, virtually took the line of least resistance to "save" the banking institution from being exposed at the expense of the individual and her family.
The decision sent a lot of chill down the spine of a lot of property owners. Worse still, the perpetrators of the tort of criminal fraud were never caught and charged by the arms of Malaysian law which do not appear as long as their counterpart in other countries.
What is significant about the case is that it occurred just slightly more than 40 years after Merdeka or Independence, thereby giving us a wake-up call that all is not well with the administration of land matters in Malaysia.
It is about time that the State set up a Land Compensation Fund to restore the confidence of local and foreign property investors shattered by the Boonsom Boonyanit decision. Of course, the first line of defence is to ensure that no half-past-six officers ever heads the departments of every State and all members of the staff operate like Caesar's wife - beyond reproach. Setting up the fund will underscore the State's serioousness in dealing with the property of all investors - local as well as foreign.
It is time for the State to put the money where the mouth is.