Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali
About FCJ Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali
Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali has 79 reported Malaysia decisions (2022–2026). These were decided across MYCOA (75) and MYFC (4). By subject matter, the largest shares are Administrative Law (18), Civil Procedure (16) and Company Law (12). Of these, 24 as the delivering judge and 55 sitting on the coram.
On the judicial record
An appellate and Federal Court judge whose reported corpus centres on the constitutional law of citizenship and free speech, criminal appeals, and administrative and arbitration questions.
Justice Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali sits in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) and, increasingly, the Federal Court (Mahkamah Persekutuan), and the reported decisions in this corpus concentrate on constitutional, criminal and administrative appeals. Citizenship is a dominant theme. Several appeals concern citizenship by operation of law under Article 14(1)(b) of the Federal Constitution and the Second Schedule — including an abandoned child said to be 'found exposed' under section 19B, a child of an unmarried Malaysian father and a foreign mother, and cases where the identity of the biological parents is unknown and the question is whether the applicant has discharged the burden of proving parentage.
Criminal appeals feature, including a murder appeal under seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan (section 302 of the Penal Code) read with seksyen 34 (section 34), where the court considered CCTV footage and the application of the 'last seen together' principle as supporting evidence. Constitutional free-speech questions also arise, including a Federal Court matter engaging the freedom of speech and expression under Article 10(1)(a) and its permissible restrictions under Article 10(2)(a), and the right to peaceful assembly under Article 10(1)(b).
Administrative and commercial matters round out the docket. A university-discipline appeal turns on the legitimacy of an investigation committee and whether natural justice was denied for want of a fair hearing and the right to respond; an arbitration appeal concerns whether a Director-General of Insolvency, as liquidator, is required to adopt an arbitration agreement under section 49 of the Arbitration Act 2005; and a defamation appeal concerns the rejection of the defences of justification and qualified privilege after a full trial. Land-use and trespass appeals also come before the panel, including competing appeals over an access road pending a land acquisition. The corpus reflects an appellate and apex-court judge working across the constitutional, criminal and administrative fields, with the constitutional law of citizenship and the guarantees of Article 10 recurring most often, and with each appeal decided on whether the court or tribunal below applied the correct legal test to the facts it found.
How many cases has Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali decided?
Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali has 79 reported Malaysia decisions (2022–2026), 24 of them as the delivering judge.
Which courts does Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali sit in?
Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali sits in MYCOA (75) and MYFC (4).
What dominates Justice Mohd Nazlan bin Mohd Ghazali's reported appeals?
Constitutional, criminal and administrative work — especially citizenship by operation of law under Article 14(1)(b) of the Federal Constitution, murder appeals, free-speech and peaceful-assembly questions under Article 10, and university-discipline and arbitration appeals.
What arbitration question appears in the corpus?
Whether a Director-General of Insolvency, acting as liquidator, is required to adopt an arbitration agreement under section 49 of the Arbitration Act 2005, and the distinction that arises in an individual bankruptcy or corporate liquidation context.