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P S Ranjan
Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court in Malaya on 4 October 1976. Founded the practice on 1 November 1986.
LL.B (Hons.) (Malaya), M.A. (Manchester)
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Manmohan S Dhillon
Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court in Malaya on 17 August 1990. Became a partner on 1 January 1997.
LL.B (Hons.) Wolverhampton
Karthi Kanthabalan
Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court in Malaya on 23 April 2010. Became a partner on 1 January 2018.
LL.B (Hons.) MMU
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Articles
Legal Costs in Medico-Legal Cases
In civil cases, the court may order a party to pay costs to another party. Usually a successful party would be awarded costs which are to be paid by an unsuccessful party.
Read MoreZulhasnimar bt Hasan Basri & Anor v Dr Kuppu Velumani P & Ors
Zulhasnimar has been described as a landmark case in regard to the discussion in it of the application of the Bolam test in medical negligence.
Read MoreMULTIPLIER: Assessment of Damages
In all catastrophic personal injury cases the court and the parties will have to consider the claimant’s life expectancy and multiplier when assessing general damages for the future. The life expectancy would be reduced by a certain number of years so as to arrive at the multiplier. The multiplier would be applied to the annual sum for each item of future loss and damage (e.g. an annual sum for nursing care). The annual sum would be the multiplicand. The equation the multiplier x the multiplicand would yield the total sum of damages for the item of loss and damage concerned.
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