Brunéi / Procedimientos conocidos
Yong Teck Sang and others v Pg Hj Abd Rahman
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Expediente y fuentes
- Nombre
- Yong Teck Sang and others v Pg Hj Abd Rahman
- Cita
- Civil Appeal No. 9 of 2014
- Tribunal
- Court of Appeal of Brunei Darussalam
- Instancia
- apelación
- Fechas
- Decisión
- 2014-11-24
- Estado
- resuelto-firmeza-no-verificada
- Resultado
- Appeal dismissed with costs.
- Resumen
- The acts were official-capacity acts and the claim could not evade constitutional immunity and the judicial-review bar by its pleading label; the civil court lacked jurisdiction.
- Antecedentes
- The appellants challenged municipal enforcement and confiscation involving allegedly illicit CDs and DVDs, framing the action as abuse and oppression and seeking declarations and more than B$300,000 in damages against the Municipal Board chair.
- Historia procesal
- The writ was filed on 12 March 2013. The Registrar struck it out; the appellants filed one day late, were denied an extension and lost before Findlay J, then appealed.
- Cuestión jurídica
- Whether a tort-labelled damages action against an officer acting only in official capacity could avoid the constitutional jurisdiction and judicial-review bars in arts. 84B(2) and 84C.
- Criterio
- The acts were official-capacity acts and the claim could not evade constitutional immunity and the judicial-review bar by its pleading label; the civil court lacked jurisdiction.
- Fundamento decisivo
- Substance governs characterization: allegations attacking official enforcement decisions remain challenges to official acts even when pleaded in tort.
- Límites
- No copyright subsistence, infringement, originality, authorship or CGW issue was decided.
- Relevancia
- procedimiento-relacionado
- Referencias relacionadas
- Peso del precedente
- binding Court of Appeal authority on constitutional immunity and jurisdiction over official-capacity acts Integración/votación: Leonard JA delivered judgment; Mortimer P and Burrell JA joined and signed; no dissent recorded.
- Fuente
- Referencia
- Yong Teck Sang and others v Pg Hj Abd Rahman
- Enlace
- Consultar fuente
- Autoridad
- Court of Appeal of Brunei Darussalam
- Tipo
- copyright_enforcement_procedure
- Tipo de evidencia
- official_complete_national_judgment
- Localizador
- pp. 1-4
- Verificación documentada
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