{"id":3583,"date":"2022-07-18T08:27:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T00:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2024-09-09T09:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T01:11:34","slug":"contract-damages-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/contract-damages-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"CONTRACT \u2013 DAMAGES \u2013 ASSESSMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John and Sally had a signed contract that stated that if the contract was terminated, John would pay Sally the sum which would be decided by an independent auditor mutually agreed. Sally then finds out that John has breached the contract. The parties then agreed to appoint Brandon as the auditor to access the damages. The auditor Brandon came up with a report, assessing the damages at RM1,000,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Can John later change his mind and disagree with the auditor Brandon\u2019s report?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A: No. The parties are bound by the contract and their decision to appoint Brandon as the independent auditor. In the absence of any vitiating factor such as auditor Brandon\u2019s report is tainted with fraud, collusion or partiality\/bias, the parties are bound by their mutually-appointed expert. And in this case auditor Brandon\u2019s report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Q:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Can John ask for the auditor Brandon\u2019s report to be cross examined and later challenged in court?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes. He may cross examine and clarify auditor\u2019s Brandon\u2019s report. John may apply to cross-examine the expert under O 37 r 4 of the Rules of Court 2012.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a breach of contract occurs, the parties have mutually agreed to hire an independent auditor to evaluate and assess the damages. If you are later unhappy with the auditor\u2019s report, can you challenge it?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1568],"tags":[3339,3340,3341],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contract-law","tag-assessment","tag-auditor","tag-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yhalaw.com.my\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}