Helmi bin Hamzah

On the judicial record

A guide to how a High Court resolves land caveat questions under the National Land Code, extraordinary-general-meeting requisitions under the Companies Act 2016, income-tax summary judgment, and jurisdictional disputes including the civil-court boundary.

Helmi bin Hamzah sits in the High Court, and this collection is a civil and commercial list authored in English. Land is a strong strand, particularly the removal of a private caveat under section 327(1) of the National Land Code (Revised 2020) and whether the caveator was an aggrieved person with a caveatable interest, including whether a company's shareholders hold a caveatable interest in land registered in the company's name. Banking and security feature through order-for-sale proceedings and the jurisdiction of a Senior Assistant Registrar to make an order for sale in an uncontested foreclosure. Company law is engaged through members' rights to requisition an extraordinary general meeting under sections 311 and 310(b) of the Companies Act 2016. Contract disputes turn on which parties may sue and be sued under a contract and the effect of a without-prejudice letter issued after settlement, engaging estoppel. Revenue law appears through summary judgment for income tax on notices of assessment and increased assessment and the question whether such notices are to be challenged in court or before the Special Commissioners of Income Tax. Civil procedure features through the treatment of a litigant declared vexatious by prior court orders and gazettes, and through a jurisdictional dispute over an originating summons touching conversion to Islam and whether the civil court had jurisdiction. Arbitration is addressed through a stay of proceedings pending arbitration and its interaction with an agreement to mediate. The judgments identify the governing provision and apply it closely. Private individuals are referred to by role; corporate, governmental and religious-authority parties are named. A recurring theme is the court's attention to jurisdiction — whose interest is caveatable, which forum should hear a tax challenge, whether the civil court may act. The collection is a clear guide to how a High Court resolves land, company, revenue and jurisdictional questions.