Mahazan binti Mat Taib

On the judicial record

A High Court judge whose reported corpus spans land, housing, civil-procedure and regulatory disputes, decided with careful attention to procedure.

Justice Mahazan binti Mat Taib sits in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), and the reported decisions in this corpus are civil, combining first-instance trials with a substantial body of appellate and interlocutory work. Land and housing disputes recur. One decision concerns trespass where occupation followed the consent of a previous registered proprietor and a substation had been erected on land before its purchase, raising the effect of an unregistered lease and a purchaser's knowledge of an existing structure; another concerns the validity of a Certificate of Completion and Compliance and alleged non-compliance with the statutory sale-and-purchase agreement on the delivery of vacant possession.

Civil-procedure practice is prominent. Decisions address the assessment of damages on an undertaking given when an interlocutory injunction was granted and later resolved by consent, and whether the absence of an express finding that the injunction was wrongly granted precludes enforcement of the undertaking; applications for an extension of time to file a notice of appeal under Order 3 rule 5 of the Rules of Court where the delay was substantial; striking out under Order 18 rule 19; and the disposal of a case on a point of law under Order 14A where the parties filed competing applications.

The corpus also engages regulatory and commercial matters, including an application by the communications regulator for wide-ranging interim injunctive relief against unknown administrators of certain Telegram channels, a winding-up petition under section 465(1)(e) of the Companies Act 2016, and an appeal from the Sessions Court on the refund of rental and utility deposits against a counterclaim for repair costs. Default-judgment set-aside applications turning on whether service was properly effected, and appeals against the striking out of a counterclaim under Order 18 rule 19, also feature. The corpus reflects a High Court judge managing a broad civil and appellate list with careful attention to procedure and to the threshold a party must meet before a claim or counterclaim is summarily determined without a full trial.