JUDGMENT

Hamid Abu Backer JCA:

[1] The appellants appealed against the decision of the learned High Court Judge who had allowed the respondent's application for pre-action discovery pursuant to O 24 r 7A of the Rules of Court 2012 (ROC 2012).

[2] Both parties among other cases had relied on the Court of Appeal's case of Infoline Sdn Bhd v. Benjamin Lim Keong Hoe [2017] 4 MLRA 203; [2017] 6 MLJ 363; [2017] 8 CLJ 554, a judgment of Her Ladyship Dato' Mary Lim Thiam Suan who is also a panel member of this coram. The judgment extensively deals with the new provision of the Rules namely O 24 r 7A which was introduced and discussed in quite a number of cases from other jurisdictions. Those cases give a multifold ideas, views and opinions on how to exercise a discretion vested in the court and court alone. The articulate discussion of the relevant cases in our view will stand as some form of guidance for the trial courts to be guided when dealing wi