Hamid Sultan bin Abu Backer

On the judicial record

Shows a Court of Appeal judge engaging across customs and revenue, civil procedure including judgment on admission under Order 27, insurance and commercial law, testing whether the court below applied the correct legal standard.

Hamid Sultan bin Abu Backer sits in the Court of Appeal, and this collection captures the varied civil and commercial range of intermediate appellate review. Revenue and customs law appears through an appeal concerning the Royal Malaysian Customs Department in Perak and the imposition of duty on a commercial party. Civil procedure is engaged in an appeal on the interpretation of Order 27 rule 3 of the Rules of Court 2012 and whether an admission made by a party to a third party can be relied on to secure a judgment on admission — a question about when a case can be shortened by an opponent's concession. Insurance features through an appeal involving a motor insurer and the policyholder's claim against it. Medical and professional matters appear in an appeal between a patient and a medical practitioner, and commercial and property disputes through a plantation company and a dispute between development companies. The subjects are diverse, but the appellate task is constant: to decide whether the court below applied the correct legal test to the facts before it, and to intervene only where it did not. Because the Court of Appeal sits in panels, these decisions reflect collective reasoning to which this judge contributed and guide the courts below. Private individuals are referred to here by role; corporate, governmental and institutional parties are named. A recurring theme is the careful construction of the procedural rule or statutory provision engaged — the reach of an admission under Order 27, the scope of a customs charge, the terms of an insurance policy — as the anchor for the court's conclusion. The collection shows how a single appellate judge engages across revenue, civil procedure, insurance and commercial law, and how a precisely framed question of construction can be decisive of an appeal that at first sight turns on its facts.