Azizul Azmi bin Adnan

On the judicial record

An appellate judge whose reported corpus spans administrative, contract, intellectual-property, criminal and detention appeals, including copyright in a dissertation and the lawfulness of military detention.

Justice Azizul Azmi bin Adnan sits in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), and the reported decisions in this corpus span administrative, contract, intellectual-property, criminal and detention appeals. Administrative law features through judicial review of public-service disciplinary proceedings, including the dismissal of police officers within the Royal Malaysia Police (Polis Diraja Malaysia) and whether the disciplinary authority's failure to give reasons vitiated the dismissal, and an employment appeal on whether a charge of taking company property without permission could sustain a dismissal.

Contract law appears through a repudiatory-breach dispute where the suspension of services for non-payment was held to be a lawful response rather than a repudiation. A distinctive intellectual-property decision concerns the copyright in a master's dissertation — its subsistence and fixation, the assignment of copyright to a university, and the distinction between economic and moral rights and the infringement of the latter.

Detention and criminal questions also come before the panel. A military-law appeal examines whether the detention of an appellant placed under close arrest for 114 days pending court martial was lawful and whether the arrest was for investigation or for prosecution, interpreting sections 94 and 96 of the governing armed-forces legislation. A civil fraud appeal concerns multiple causes of action — fraud, conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, constructive trust and breach of professional duty — arising from a land sale that never took place. Land-acquisition compensation under the Land Acquisition Act 1960 and the right to property under Article 13 of the Federal Constitution, and a stay of execution where the appellant had been declared a vexatious litigant, round out a broad docket. A hospital-liability question also arises on whether a plaintiff may sue a hospital named only by a trading style that is not a legal entity recognised in law. The corpus reflects an appellate judge working across the administrative, commercial, intellectual-property and criminal fields, correcting the application of settled principle by the courts and tribunals below rather than retrying the disputes, with the correctness of the decision under review the persistent concern.