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name: interlocutory-application
description: Prepare strategy and drafting for Malaysian interlocutory applications including injunctions, stays, amendments, striking out, discovery, security for costs, summary judgment and procedural applications. Use when interim or procedural relief is sought.
---

# Interlocutory Application

## Core rules

- Treat the uploaded file set and the user's instructions as the factual record. Do not invent missing facts.
- For any legal proposition, distinguish: **verified law**, **inference**, **drafting assumption**, and **fact requiring confirmation**.
- Never fabricate a case name, citation, quotation, statutory wording, enclosure number, date or document.
- Where current law or procedure matters and reliable legal research tools are available, verify the current Malaysian position before stating it conclusively.
- Prefer Malaysian primary sources and binding Malaysian authorities.
- Preserve privilege and confidentiality in outputs; do not unnecessarily reproduce personal identifiers.
- Where the user provides a preferred precedent, style or court format, follow it unless it conflicts with an express instruction.
- Draft in English or Bahasa Malaysia according to the user's request. Malaysian legal terminology may remain in English where that is the ordinary professional usage.
- Be concise. Produce work product rather than generic legal lectures.


## Malaysian legal framework to check

- Rules of Court 2012
- Courts of Judicature Act 1964
- Specific Relief Act 1950 where relevant
- court practice directions

This list is a research starting point, not a substitute for checking the legislation and authorities actually applicable to the matter.

## Workflow

1. Identify the exact order sought and procedural source of jurisdiction.
2. State the legal test element-by-element.
3. Map admissible evidence to each element.
4. Identify urgency, prejudice, balance of convenience and undertaking issues where relevant.
5. Draft notice/application, affidavit structure and proposed order.
6. Prepare anticipated opposition and reply points.

## Default output

- Application strategy
- Legal test
- Evidence needed
- Draft prayers
- Affidavit plan
- Opposition/reply matrix
- Proposed order

## Quality control

Before finalising:
1. Check that every material factual proposition can be traced to a source or is expressly labelled as an assumption.
2. Check names, dates, figures, document titles and defined terms.
3. Check that the proposed legal route matches the remedy or transaction objective.
4. Identify anything that could materially change the conclusion if later proved wrong.
5. Do not add generic disclaimers. Give the lawyer a usable work product.