Mahkamah Tinggi di dalam kes ENRICH MULTITRADE SDN BHD lwn. JEMMINGS SDN BHD [2022] CLJU 2331 [2022] 1 LNS 2331, Yang Arif Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman Mohamad Abazafree Mohd Abbas menyatakan yang berikut: “[37] Prinsip "accord and satisfaction" adalah merupakan satu pertimbangan (consideration) yang jika diterima membolehkan penyelesaian ke atas suatu tuntutan. Ia sepertimana yang dinyatakan di dalam kes British Rusian Gazette and Trade Outlook Ltd v. Assosciated Newspaper Ltd [1933] 2 KB 616 sepertimana yang telah dirujuk oleh banyak kes seperti berikut; "Accord and satisfaction is the purchase of a release from an obligation whether arising under contract or tort by means of any valuable consideration, not being the actual performance of the obligation itself. The accord is the agreement by which the obligation is discharged. The satisfaction is the consideration which makes the agreement operative." [38] Bagi menentukan keterpakaian doktrin ini, Hakim Syed Ahmad Helmy b Syed Ahmad (pada ketika itu PK) di dalam kes Misliha binti Lagiman v. Linguaphone Distributors Sdn Bhd [2003] CLJU 598; [2003] 1 LNS 598 telah menyatakan; "The approach a Court should take in determining whether there has been "accord and satisfaction", both in law and fact, is well settled and the best exposition of it appears in Roskill J.'s judgment in Margaronis Navigation Agency Ltd. v. Henry W. Peabody & Co. of London Ltd. [1965] 1 Q.B. 300 at 319. "Where the question arises whether a particular obligation has been performed, the first thing that has to be done is to ascertain the nature of the obligation. That depends upon the construction of the contract and the construction of the contract is, of course, a question of law. But that is only one part of the equation. Having ascertained what the obligation is, one then has to measure the performance, and see whether the performance fulfils the obligation. That again ultimately is either a question of law or a question of mixed facts and law; not perhaps in every case, but in a great many cases." The importance of ascertaining the exact terms of the compromise or "obligation", as Roskill J. puts it, is that it determines the question of whether or not the plaintiff can rely on his original cause of action. If, for instance, the promised or actual forbearance to pursue the claim is construed as being in return for the promised performance of some act by the other, or whom I would call the offending party, the agreement will be regarded as one involving the immediate discharge of the claim. But if the promised or actual forbearance is construed as being in return for the actual performance of some act by the offending party, the claim forborne will not be discharged until such performance takes place (see, the British Russian Gazette's case, supra), and if in this respect the offending party fails to perform the terms of the compromise, the other party has an option to either accept the offending party's repudiation of the compromise and re-assert his original claim or affirm the compromise and sue upon it." [39] Selanjutnya Hakim Syed Ahmad Helmy telah merujuk kepada Chitty on Contracts - General Principles (27th Edition) dan menyatakan; "On compromise, Chitty on Contracts - General Principles (27th Edition) states at para 22-012:- "In order to establish a valid compromise, it must be shown that there has been agreement (accord) which is complete and certain in its terms, and that consideration (satisfaction) has been given or promised in return for the promised or actual forbearance to pursue the claim." and at para 22-019, on evidence of accord:- "The question whether there has been an accord and satisfaction is a question of fact.74 Thus, retention and use by a creditor of a cheque sent by a debtor in full and final satisfaction of a larger claim does not as a matter of law, constitute an accord and satisfaction.75 The intention of the creditor in cashing the cheque must be objectively ascertained. Cashing a cheque or retention of a cheque without rejection is strong evidence of assent by the creditor but it is not con-clusive evidence so that a creditor who, at the moment of paying in the cheque, makes clear that he is not assenting to the conditions imposed by the debtor will not be held to have entered into an accord and satisfaction.76 The construction of any correspondence which, it is alleged, evidences the accord is, however, a question of law.77" [40] Selanjutnya beliau merumuskan; "From the above, what comes across as clear is the following:-