Malaysian Legal Research

Conduct Malaysian legal research for litigation and advisory work using statutes, subsidiary legislation and case law. Use whenever the user asks for authorities, legal propositions, comparative authorities or verification of a legal principle.

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name: malaysian-legal-research
description: Conduct Malaysian legal research for litigation and advisory work using statutes, subsidiary legislation and case law. Use whenever the user asks for authorities, legal propositions, comparative authorities or verification of a legal principle.
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# Malaysian Legal Research

## 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

- Federal Constitution
- Acts of Parliament
- subsidiary legislation
- Rules of Court 2012
- reported and unreported Malaysian cases

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

## Workflow

1. Frame the precise legal questions before searching.
2. Start with Malaysian primary authority and current statutory text.
3. Prefer Federal Court, then Court of Appeal, then High Court according to hierarchy and relevance.
4. Check whether cases were followed, distinguished, overruled or affected by amendment.
5. Use Commonwealth authorities only where Malaysian law permits and clearly label persuasive status.
6. Never invent a citation, quotation, proposition or case history.

## Default output

- Issues researched
- Short answer
- Statutory framework
- Authorities table
- Key quotations only where verified
- Application to facts
- Unresolved questions

## 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.

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