Darmafikri bin Abu Adam

On the judicial record

A cross-section of a High Court hearing serious drug crime under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and sexual-offence appeals alongside contract, trust and procedural disputes, with the Malay terms of art quoted and glossed.

Darmafikri bin Abu Adam sits in the High Court, and this collection combines criminal and civil work, with much of the reasoning in Bahasa Malaysia. Drug prosecutions under seksyen 39B(1)(a) Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 (section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952) are prominent, involving heroin, methamphetamine and cannabis in stated weights, including a charge amended to an alternative charge on the prosecution's representation and matters read with section 34 of the Penal Code on common intention. Sexual offences against children under section 14(1)(a) of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017 appear on appeal, engaging the sentencing principles. On the civil side, the docket takes in a civil appeal over a friendship loan claimed against the administrator of a deceased's estate, pinjaman persahabatan (a loan between friends), a claim to shares and property acquired during a marriage said to be held on trust, a civil appeal over a MARA education-loan contract and its terms, an application for consequential orders under Order 92 rule 4 of the Rules of Court 2012 concerning a tenancy, summary judgment under Order 14, and an application for leave to commence judicial review under Order 53. The judgments state the charge or claim, work through the evidence, and record the disposition in its operative terms, glossing the Malay as it appears. In keeping with the site's suppression rule, accused persons and private litigants are referred to by role; corporate and statutory parties are named. A recurring theme is the court's movement between the evidential rigour of a criminal trial and the contractual and equitable questions of a civil list, applying to each the discipline the subject demands. The collection is a useful cross-section of a High Court that hears serious drug crime alongside contract, trust and procedural disputes, and of how the same judge adapts the standard of proof and the mode of analysis to the matter before the court.