Hi Sifus,
Currently in a tight situation with the MOT penalty fees due to complication with Lawyer.
Long story short.
- Bought a 2nd hand Apartment unit in JB. Complete document signing/bank loan etc etc. around Jun.
- MOT start date by SPA Laywer to Loan Laywer on mid July’18
- Delay in Land Office issue search due to system upgrade, Loan Lawyer unable to present, due at mid Oct’18 (penalty 1).
- Finally able to update, Loan Lawyer feedback Bank reject as document not latest, need to re-submit , due at mid Jan (penalty2).
- 1st payment release, now SPA laywer ask to settle Penalty 1 & 2 by this week to avoid another penalty. (potential Penalty 3).


Question:
1.) Can anyone here confirm that 2nd Quarter 2018, there was an issue with JB Land Office? The Loan lawyer feedback that this impacted everyone requesting for the land search document during that period.
2.) Loan Lawyer insist not their fault, rather it was “Government’s Body” delay, and do not want to take responsibilities on all the penalties. Does this even make sense?.
3.) Should I pay the penalty now to avoid more complication (~RM4xxx)?. I’ve arranged to go to the Loan Laywer office(in KL*) to meet face 2 face to cleared up all this Friday, but the due date for the 3rd Penalty is this week.
Note: their JB branch got transferred to KL sometime during the house purchase last year

Appreciate any sifu advise on this

thanks cdspins

To answer your questions :

Got the chronological of event from the Loan Lawyer side since most of the time, they are the one "having issue" with the land office.
The issue now is the Lawyer blamed the "Land office" for causing the delay in getting the seach done in time. And they said that it is unfair if they have to bare the penalty for this. (written in the chronological timeline).
In the end decided to pay the penalty now . Sadly, I've paid the lawyer fee in full earlier since I was thinking it would motivate them to fully support my transaction. Silly me for thinking so.

Plan to see whether can get the Loan Laywer to help submit an appeal instead.
Was wondering if there is any other legal approach to get this solved