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21 IIUMLJ 1 (2013)

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THE COMMERCIAL LAW OF MALAYSIA* -
REVISITED SECTION 5(2) OF THE CIVIL
LAW ACT 1956; CONSTITUTIONALITY,
THE EU AND ISLAMISATION
Baharuddeen Abu Bakar**
ABSTRACT
Sec. 5(2) of the Civil Law Act 1956 with its
predecessors, providing for the application of English
commercial law of Malaysia, have existed unaltered
for more than 100 years even with revision. There
have been important political and economic
developments during this period: Independence; the
Malaysian Constitution; UK's entry into the EU
bringing with it the question of the constitutionality
of applying English legislation and EU commercial
legislation in independent Malaysia; and the attempt
to found Malaysian civil law on Islamic values and
Title of a series of articles by Prof. Bartholomew, later published as a
monograph by the Malayan Law Journal, Singapore in 1965. The
monograph is the text referred to in this article.
LL.B Hons (Univ. Malaya); Diploma in Sharia Law and Practice, Master
in Comparative Law (IIUM); (Non-practising) Advocate and Solicitor
of the High Court of Malaya; Senior Lecturer, Legal Practice Department,
Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws (AIKOL), HUM.
I wish to dedicate this article to Prof. Ahmad Ibrahim who imparted to
me and my classmates, the first group of graduates (Class of '76) our
first knowledge of Malaysian civil law (and instilled among the Muslim
law undergraduates our interest in Islamic law) as the founding dean

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