Has Zanah binti Mehat

On the judicial record

Shows a Court of Appeal judge engaging across circumstantial murder under the Penal Code, the pleading and proof of damages, the Advocates and Solicitors Compensation Fund, and constructive trusts over land.

Has Zanah binti Mehat sits in the Court of Appeal, and this collection captures the criminal and civil range of intermediate appellate review. Homicide is a strong strand: murder under section 302 of the Penal Code read with section 34 on common intention, decided on circumstantial evidence and the last-seen-together principle, and murder under clause (c) of section 300 with the defence of grave and sudden provocation under Exception 1 to section 300 and the proportionality it requires. Civil procedure features through applications to strike out a counterclaim where summary judgment had already been allowed and whether the issues were barred by res judicata or an abuse of process. The assessment of damages recurs, including whether special damages not pleaded and particularised may be recovered, whether legal fees are claimable, and the availability of general and exemplary damages. The legal profession appears through a claim for compensation from the Advocates and Solicitors Compensation Fund established under the Legal Profession Act 1976. Property and equity are engaged in a trespass action raising a constructive trust over temple land and whether the evidence supported it, and commercial law in a claim for specific performance of a tribute agreement concerning tin-mining leases and operations. Because the Court of Appeal sits in panels and its rulings bind or guide the courts below, these decisions reflect collective reasoning to which this judge contributed. Private individuals and accused persons are referred to by role; corporate, professional and institutional parties are named. A recurring theme is the appellate court's testing of whether the trial court correctly applied the governing principle — the burden of proof in a circumstantial murder case, the pleading rules for damages, the elements of a constructive trust — before it will intervene. The collection shows how a single appellate judge engages across homicide, civil procedure, damages and property law.