Hanipah binti Farikullah

On the judicial record

Shows an apex- and appellate-level judge engaging across leave-stage judicial review under Order 53, strict construction of tax exemptions, rape under the Penal Code, refugee habeas corpus, and the scope of witness immunity.

Hanipah binti Farikullah appears in this collection sitting in the Federal Court and the Court of Appeal, and the docket ranges across public, revenue, commercial and criminal law. Judicial review is a strong strand, including a high-profile matter on the Attorney General's role at the leave stage under Order 53 rule 3(3) of the Rules of Court 2012 and whether there is a duty to confirm or disclose documents, and an administrative-law appeal on whether a dispute was properly commenced by originating summons. Revenue law recurs through the strict and narrow construction of a tax exemption under the Sales Tax (Persons Exempted From Payment of Tax) Order 2018, engaging the single-stage tax principle and the distinction between statutory orders. Criminal law appears through the offence of rape under section 376(1) of the Penal Code and the procedures under section 265A of the Criminal Procedure Code, and public law through a habeas corpus application by a person holding a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees card, engaging section 6 of the Immigration Act 1959. Commercial and civil questions of general importance include whether a witness enjoys absolute immunity from civil liability for evidence given in judicial proceedings, the finality of litigation, the right to appeal the dismissal of an interlocutory strike-out application, and summary judgment for liquidated damages on the late delivery of vacant possession. Because these matters are decided in panels and bind or guide the courts below, they settle points of general importance. Private individuals are referred to by role; corporate, governmental and statutory parties are named. A recurring concern is the proper scope of a legal duty or immunity — the Attorney General's disclosure duty, a witness's immunity, the reach of a tax exemption. The collection is valuable for showing how an apex- and appellate-level judge engages across judicial review, revenue, crime and commercial law.