Jamhirah binti Ali

On the judicial record

A High Court judge whose reported corpus centres on striking out and civil procedure, with contract, company, defamation and strata disputes among the range.

Justice Jamhirah binti Ali sits in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), and the reported decisions in this corpus are civil, with a strong emphasis on striking out, civil procedure and commercial disputes, the judgments carefully labelling their subject areas. Striking-out applications under Order 18 rule 19 of the Rules of Court are a defining feature. Decisions address whether an application is void or ineffective because multiple limbs of the rule are pleaded cumulatively, whether an action is vexatious, frivolous, scandalous or an abuse of process, and whether a suit is time-barred under the Limitation Act 1953 — including an action arising from a final arbitration award and subsequent proceedings that had been resolved by consent judgment.

Contract and company disputes recur. One decision concerns the rescission of a contract for fraudulent misrepresentation where an employee's degree lacked recognition and legitimacy, and another addresses a shareholder's allegation that directors abused their power by disposing of company property without her knowledge or the statutory approval required under section 223 of the Companies Act 2016.

Tort and appellate work also feature. Defamation and malicious-falsehood claims arise from statements made over messaging and video-conferencing platforms, and road-traffic negligence appears through a liability dispute decided on independent-witness testimony and the physical evidence. Appeals from the Sessions Court engage the settled principle that an appellate court will interfere with findings of fact only where the judge erred in principle, misapprehended the facts, or failed to consider relevant matters. Arbitration also comes before the court through an application for a mandatory stay of proceedings brought by a liquidator to recover debts. Strata-management disputes over differential maintenance charges in a mixed development round out a broad docket. The corpus reflects a High Court judge managing a busy civil list with careful attention to procedure and the threshold for striking out.