Abdul Karim bin Abdul Jalil

On the judicial record

A strong illustration of apex- and appellate-level reasoning across murder under section 300(c) of the Penal Code, insider trading, commercial guarantees, tax exemption and stamp duty, and arbitration under the Arbitration Act 2005.

Abdul Karim bin Abdul Jalil appears in this collection sitting in the Federal Court and the Court of Appeal, and the docket combines final appellate rulings with intermediate appellate review across crime, commerce and public law. Criminal appeals are a strong strand, including the elements of murder under seksyen 300(c) Kanun Keseksaan (section 300(c) of the Penal Code) and whether an injury was sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death, and a securities matter examining whether intent to use inside information — the mens rea of insider trading — must be proved to ground liability. Commercial-contract appeals engage the construction of a commercial guarantee and principles such as contra proferentem and generalia specialibus, and the recovery of monies said to relate to gambling or wagering under section 26 of the Civil Law Act 1956. Revenue and tax appeals turn on the strict construction of a tax exemption under the Sales Tax (Persons Exempted From Payment of Tax) Order 2018 and on whether an asset-purchase agreement was a conveyance on sale for stamp-duty purposes. Public and administrative law is engaged in a judicial-review challenge to the validity of a fatwa and in an appeal on whether retired Members of Parliament are entitled to a pension revision when serving members' salaries are revised. Arbitration features in an appeal on the enforceability of an arbitral tribunal's oral pronouncements in bifurcated proceedings under the Arbitration Act 2005. Because much of this work is decided in panels, the reasoning binds or guides the courts below. Private individuals are referred to by role; corporate, governmental and statutory parties are named. A common thread is close attention to statutory language — the strict reading of a tax exemption, the precise elements of an offence, the words of a guarantee — as the anchor for the court's conclusion. The collection is a strong illustration of apex- and appellate-level reasoning across criminal law, commercial contract, revenue and public law.