Cheah Theam Kheng v City Centre Sdn Bhd (in liquidation) and other appeals [2012] 1 MLJ 761 CA:

“[105] We categorically say that the liquidator cannot blow hot and cold to suit him whenever he feels like it. He cannot approbate and reprobate in the same breath. On the one hand, he claims that the High Court order dated 26 July 2001 overrides or displaces a statute which render the said order invalid and yet he has the audacity to continue to act as a liquidator by virtue of the said order. In the words of Sir Nicolas Browne- Wilkinson VC in Express Newspapers ple v News (UK) Ltd and others [1990] 3 All ER 376, at pp 383-384:

There is a principle of law of general application that it is not possible to approbate and reprobate. That means you are not allowed to blow hot and cold in the attitude that you adopt. A man cannot adopt two inconsistent attitudes towards another: he must elect between them and, having elected to adopt one stance, cannot thereafter be permitted to go back and adopt an inconsistent stance.”