Standardizing the Legal Framework on Duty of Care for Road Haulage in Malaysia A Conceptual Paper

Anas Afandi Ahmad Apandi, Abang Ikhbal Abang Bolhil

Abstract


Standardization of agreement has been used habitually by hauliers and its customers in their business transaction. Standardization is a means of simplification of business transaction. Companies especially those who deals with multiple transactions daily would have opt for the use of standard agreement as part of their modus operandi as the use of standardized agreements especially for transactions involving lower value will optimized their business and reduced their costs of operation.
The objective of this paper is to provide a review on standard agreement used by hauliers. Method used in this paper shall only confine to library research, review of legal documents, applicable cases and academic papers. At the end of this paper, it was found that fairness is a subjective subject and fair terms for one party does not means it would be fair to another. A universal fairness of contract could only be achieved through standardization of law a means to regulate the parties involve.


Keywords


component; bailment of goods, duty of care, exclusion clause, fairness of contract, reduction of liability

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