Ishrakh Saad & Co
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About Ishrakh Saad & Co
Ishrakh Saad & Co appears in 6 reported Malaysia judgments (2025–2026). These were heard before MYCOA (5) and MYHC (1).
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Ishrakh Saad & Co is a Malaysian criminal-litigation practice whose reported matters are argued before the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), acting for appellants and accused persons in prosecutions brought by the Public Prosecutor (Pendakwa Raya). A large part of the caseload concerns dangerous drugs. The firm has argued trafficking appeals under section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, including a matter testing whether the act of keeping drugs constituted trafficking within the definition in section 2 of the Act, and whether the trial judge had erred in that characterisation, and appeals in which accused persons had been sentenced to life imprisonment from the date of arrest and whipping, where the issues on appeal (isu di peringkat rayuan) were the absence of knowledge of the drugs found and of their true nature.
The firm has also appeared in a prosecution appeal against an acquittal and discharge ordered at the close of the prosecution case in the Magistrate's Court in a matter under the Road Transport Act 1987, engaging sections 45A, 45B and 45C and the Motor Vehicles (Breath, Blood and Urine Tests) Rules 1995, and whether the ingredients of the offence had been proved and the prescribed procedures followed. Across the caseload the recurring questions are the proof of knowledge and possession in drug cases, the correct legal characterisation of conduct as trafficking, and the procedural safeguards that govern road-transport prosecutions. In the road-transport appeal the firm resisted the prosecution's challenge to an acquittal, arguing that the ingredients of the offence had not been proved and that the testing procedures prescribed by the Motor Vehicles Rules had not been strictly observed. The reported profile is that of a focused criminal-appeal practice, engaged both in resisting drug convictions and sentences of the utmost severity and in the technical evidentiary and procedural questions that determine whether a conviction or an acquittal will stand.
How many cases has Ishrakh Saad & Co been involved in?
Ishrakh Saad & Co appears in 6 reported Malaysia judgments (2025–2026).
Which courts does Ishrakh Saad & Co appear in?
Ishrakh Saad & Co appears before MYCOA (5) and MYHC (1).
What is the firm's principal area of practice?
Criminal defence and appeals, especially dangerous-drugs trafficking under section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, before the Court of Appeal and High Court.
What definitional question did the firm raise in a trafficking appeal?
Whether the act of keeping drugs constituted trafficking within the definition in section 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, and whether the trial judge had erred in so characterising it.