Noor Hayati binti Haji Mat

On the judicial record

A High Court judge whose reported decisions span grave criminal trials and a broad civil docket — land, defamation, fiduciary duty and investment fraud — written in both Bahasa Malaysia and English.

Justice Noor Hayati binti Haji Mat sits in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), and the reported decisions in this corpus straddle the criminal and civil lists, with a number of judgments written in Bahasa Malaysia. On the criminal side, the court tries grave offences: a murder charge under seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan (section 302 of the Penal Code), where the accused raised the defence of private defence following a struggle, and full narcotics trials — a perbicaraan jenayah (a criminal trial) — charging trafficking under seksyen 39B(1)(a) Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 (section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952) together with possession offences under seksyen 12(2) and related charges under the Poisons Act 1952 (Akta Racun 1952).

The civil docket is broad. Land and property disputes recur, including a claim over allegedly negligent issuance of final title by the Land Office when the same land had been sold to another buyer, and applications to record a judgment in default of defence — penghakiman ingkar pembelaan (judgment in default of defence) — in a trespass and declaratory claim. Commercial and equity matters appear through an interim injunction sought against former employees for breach of fiduciary duty and confidentiality, and a class action alleging conspiracy, fraud and fraudulent misrepresentation in connection with a purported Shariah-compliant investment structured as a tawarruq arrangement.

Defamation is a further strand, including a claim arising from the publication of the minutes of an apartment management body's annual general meeting, and an appeal in a defamation matter concerning a complaint of misconduct against a syarie lawyer. Construction and subcontract disputes also feature, such as a claim for the supply and installation of performance louvres on an industrial project. The corpus reflects a High Court judge managing a mixed criminal and civil list and moving comfortably between both national languages.