Asmah binti Musa

On the judicial record

A strong illustration of the everyday commercial and civil workload of a modern High Court, spanning contract construction, civil procedure, negligence, and land and housing-development disputes.

Asmah binti Musa sits in the High Court, and this collection is a densely commercial and civil list authored in English. Contract is the largest strand: the construction of development, sale and management agreements — including a landowner-and-developer agreement over a large parcel where the developer failed to complete, and a family settlement agreement turning on whether a renunciation clause bound only the plaintiff or also the children. Commercial-supply disputes appear over deposits paid for undelivered goods, such as nitrile gloves supplied against proforma invoices, and whether the buyer or seller repudiated the contract. Civil procedure is heavily represented: applications to transfer proceedings under Order 57 rule 1 and to transfer a suit from the Sessions Court to the High Court, and striking out under Order 18 rule 19 of the Rules of Court 2012. Tort and negligence recur, including road-accident quantum and a claim for negligent damage to an underground telecommunication cable during excavation works, engaging a contractor's liability for damage to buried utilities. Land and security feature through a chargee's order for sale and an application by the administrator of a deceased chargor's estate to stay execution. Housing-development law arises over consent to transfer a strata property, a Bumiputera-quota discount repayment, and a statutory penalty. Landlord-and-tenant questions concern the effect of continued occupation and payment after the expiry of a written tenancy. Appellate principles are addressed where the court considers the restraint an appellate court exercises over a trial court's findings of fact. The judgments identify the governing rule or agreement and apply it precisely. Private individuals are referred to by role; corporate and institutional parties are named. What emerges across the list is a consistent method: the court reads each agreement or pleading against its own terms and the governing rule, and resolves the dispute on that footing rather than on broad impression. The collection is a strong illustration of the everyday commercial and civil workload of a modern High Court, and of how contract construction, procedure and tort interlock on a single first-instance list.