Plaintif merayu ke Mahkamah Rayuan di mana YA Gopal Sri Ram (HMR pada masa itu) memutuskan: “[12] Section 8(1) of the Act is in pari materia with s. 8(1) of the UK Registration of Business Names Act 1916. The effect of the equipollent section was discussed by Lord President Normand in Anderson v. Balnagown Estates Co. [1939] SC 168. His Lordship said: The suggestion was made that, when the action was raised in the name of John and Francis Anderson, it was fundamentally null under section 8 of the Registration of Business Names Act, 1916. I entirely disagree. Section 8 is concerned with rights under contracts, and, when it applies, it does not make contract null ab initio because the Courts may grant relief. The important thing is that the contract founded was entered into between Mr. Ian Pitman and Messrs John and Francis Anderson when there had been no default, and that the instance as amended is unexceptionable. For this reason the Lord Ordinary's interlocutor ought to be affirmed. [13] Lord Moncrieff added; At the time the action was raised this firm, as regards registration, is said to have stood in this position-that a partner had died and on his death the firm had been dissolved, with a resulting obligation on the surviving partners to register the death in order to bring the particulars up to date by the Registration of Business Names Act, 1916. Assuming that, so long as the particulars so required for registration had not been notified, the rights of the firm would have remained unenforceable by action as provided in section 8 of that statute, that single circumstance would not make this present action a nullity, seeing that any such default on the part of the firm is by the same action rendered capable of cure. [14] It is therefore clear that non-registration or invalid registration or default in registration does not make a contract entered into by a partner void ab initio. However no suit may be brought by a partner to enforce such a contract unless he has first obtained relief from the High Court in accordance with the proviso to s. 8(1). But in the present case it is not a partner who is suing in the name of the plaintiff firm. It is the firm itself. Accordingly, on the present facts, the revocation of the firm's registration deprived the plaintiff standing to continue with the action against the defendants.”