Hazizah binti Kassim

On the judicial record

A High Court judge whose reported corpus spans contract, land, company and family-property disputes, tried fluently in both Bahasa Malaysia and English.

Justice Hazizah binti Kassim sits in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), and the reported decisions in this corpus are civil, with a large proportion written and tried in Bahasa Malaysia and many disposed of after a bicara penuh (a full trial). Commercial and contract disputes are prominent. One decision concerns a claim to recover the outstanding redemption price of Islamic Redeemable Preference Shares (RPS-i) offered under a subscription agreement — a Perjanjian Langganan (subscription agreement); another arises from a joint-development agreement — a Perjanjian Pembangunan Bersama (joint-development agreement) — to develop the plaintiff's land, and others concern the supply of goods such as nitrile gloves and disputes over used-car and workshop businesses run between former spouses.

Property and land disputes recur, including claims to recover possession of shop-office units and disputes over development sites, frequently overlapping with contract and partnership questions. Interlocutory practice is well represented: applications to strike out a writ and statement of claim under Order 18 rule 19 and related provisions of the Rules of Court, and applications for injunctions under section 50 of the Specific Relief Act 1950. Appeals from the subordinate courts also come before the court, including a civil appeal from the Sessions Court over the balance due for completed works and an appeal in a road-accident case over the apportionment of liability.

The corpus also reaches personal-status and citizenship questions, including an originating summons by adoptive parents seeking citizenship by operation of law for an adopted child, and applications concerning trading-site allocations for a festival bazaar. Several decisions turn on whether the plaintiffs have sued the correct party and whether the claim rests solely on particular letters of award and a consultation contract, questions the court resolves by close reading of the documents and the parties' conduct. The overall impression is of a High Court judge managing a broad civil list — contract, land, company, family-property and administrative matters — and doing so fluently in both Bahasa Malaysia and English, resolving each dispute on a careful assessment of the evidence adduced at trial.