Notice periods and ending a job
How much notice you or your employer must give, what changes when a job is cut, and when your last pay is due.
Employment Act 1955
Guides for life events
What the law says when something happens to you, in plain English, with every section it relies on linked.
20 guides · Each checked against the official text
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Renting a home: eviction and unpaid rent
How a landlord can take a home back, what a warrant of distress can and cannot seize, and what a sum named in a tenancy agreement is worth.
Specific Relief Act 1950, Distress Act 1951
Buying a home from a developer
Who can sell you a home that is still being built, where your payments go, and how to make a claim against a developer.
Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966
Separating or divorcing
Which law applies to you, when you can file, and how assets are divided, under the civil law and under Islamic family law.
Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976, Islamic Family Law (Federal Territories) Act 1984
When is an agreement legally binding?
What makes an agreement a contract, when a contract is void or voidable, and what you can claim when one is broken.
Contracts Act 1950
Your personal data and a data breach
Your rights over personal data held about you, and what must happen after a data breach.
Personal Data Protection Act 2010, Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2024
If you are arrested or questioned
Your rights when the police arrest or question you, and how long you can be held.
Federal Constitution, Criminal Procedure Code
Starting a business
Registering a business, and forming a company with its directors and secretary.
Registration of Businesses Act 1956, Companies Act 2016
Dismissed without just cause or excuse
How to ask for your job back, the 60-day deadline, who can speak for you, and what happens at the Court.
Industrial Relations Act 1967
When your pay is late or short
When your wages must be paid, what your employer can deduct, and how to claim what you are owed.
Employment Act 1955
Working hours, overtime and rest days
The limits on your working day and week, how overtime is counted and paid, and your rest days and public holidays.
Employment Act 1955
Annual, sick, maternity and paternity leave
How much paid leave you get, when you must take it, and what happens to leave you have not taken when you go.
Employment Act 1955
Hurt at work
What counts as an injury at work, including on the way to work, the social security benefits you can receive, and when you can sue your employer.
Employees' Social Security Act 1969
Children: custody and maintenance
Who looks after the children and who pays for them after parents separate, under the civil law and under Islamic family law in the Federal Territories.
Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976, Islamic Family Law (Federal Territories) Act 1984
When someone dies: wills and estates
Making a valid will, who inherits when there is no will, the Syariah court for a Muslim's estate, and small estates.
Wills Act 1959, Distribution Act 1958, Small Estates (Distribution) Act 1955
Borrowing from a moneylender
Licensed lenders, the interest limits, the paperwork you are owed, and what a court can do about an unfair loan.
Moneylenders Act 1951
Getting back money you are owed
How long you have to make a claim, what restarts the clock, and which court hears it.
Limitation Act 1953, Subordinate Courts Act 1948
Faulty goods and refunds
The guarantees that come with goods you buy as a consumer, when you can ask for a repair, a replacement or your money back, and how to claim at the Tribunal.
Consumer Protection Act 1999
After a road accident
What a driver must do at the scene, reporting to the police within 24 hours, insurance, and claiming for death or injury.
Road Transport Act 1987
Harassment, online and offline
Stalking, threats and insults: what the Penal Code makes an offence.
Penal Code
