Malaysia: New Test for Fiduciary Duties of Employee

In the recent Court of Appeal decision with grounds of judgment dated 9 September 2015 by Tan Sri Idris Harun, the Court of Appeal set out the test for the imposition  of fiduciary duties on employees.

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Unlike a director, an employee of a company would ordinarily not owe any fiduciary duties to the company.An employee may owe contractual duties as well as the common law duty of fidelity to the employer, but this is far removed from the stricter fiduciary duties.

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