Evrol Mariette Peters

On the judicial record

A judge with a distinctive family-law practice — including cross-border matrimonial property — working also across the criminal, administrative and commercial fields.

Justice Evrol Mariette Peters sits in both the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) and the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), and the reported decisions in this corpus are distinguished by a strong body of family-law work alongside commercial, criminal and administrative matters. Divorce and matrimonial disputes recur, including spousal maintenance and the 'means and needs' test, the division of matrimonial assets under section 76 of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976, and questions of jurisdiction where matrimonial property is situated abroad — for example whether a Malaysian court may divide properties in France and whether it can take judicial notice of French property law.

The interaction between family and company law arises where a wife presented a winding-up petition in respect of a company whose shares both spouses had pleaded as matrimonial assets in their divorce and judicial-separation petitions. Committal proceedings feature, including whether a wife wilfully failed to comply with a consent order granting access to a child and whether the child's wishes should be considered, and a fraud action by a former husband alleging that a former wife concealed an adulterous relationship during the original divorce proceedings.

Criminal and administrative appeals round out the docket. A murder appeal turns on whether the trial judge misdirected himself as to the common intention of a second appellant under section 34 of the Penal Code. A legal-profession appeal concerns the suspension and fining of an advocate and solicitor by the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board, and a judicial-review appeal examines whether an employer had proved genuine financial hardship to justify a retrenchment. Commercial enforcement appears through the service of an ex parte Mareva injunction on numerous banks to freeze funds pending judgment. The corpus reflects a judge with a distinctive family-law practice — spanning maintenance, matrimonial-asset division and the enforcement of custody orders — working also across the criminal, administrative and commercial fields, and bringing the same close attention to the governing statute and the evidence to each.