Noradura binti Hamzah

On the judicial record

A commercial High Court judge whose reported corpus spans banking (including the Quincecare duty), company-law remedies, contested road-traffic negligence and construction disputes.

Justice Noradura binti Hamzah sits in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), and the reported decisions in this corpus are civil and commercial, ranging across banking, company law, tort and construction. Banking litigation includes a notable decision on the so-called Quincecare duty, where an elderly preferred customer suffered debit-card fraud through repeated ATM withdrawals and transfers over consecutive days, and the question was whether the unusual pattern of transactions put the bank on inquiry and whether it breached its duty of care by failing to intervene.

Company-law disputes recur. Decisions address winding up on the just and equitable ground under section 465(1)(h) of the Companies Act 2016, including allegations of improper share issuance, dilution and exclusion from management in a quasi-partnership; minority-oppression and mismanagement complaints under sections 213 and 346 of the Companies Act 2016, supported by a Mareva injunction to preserve assets; and judicial management applications under sections 404 to 407 of the Companies Act 2016 (Akta 777) as an alternative to a winding-up petition.

Tort and contract claims feature strongly, particularly road-traffic negligence where liability is contested — for example an alleged brake failure examined against eyewitness evidence, the absence of skid marks and the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur — and construction and engineering disputes over cable failures, rectification costs and liability for damage to fibre-optic and power cables, several reaching the court on appeal from the Sessions Court. Conveyancing and civil-procedure points also arise, including the role of a stakeholder solicitor and the consequences of filing submissions out of time without leave, and an aviation-services dispute over an aircraft-charter arrangement raising privity of contract and set-off. Estate and family-property disputes also come before the court, including applications to strike out parts of a defence and counterclaim under Order 18 rule 19 of the Rules of Court as scandalous or vexatious in a dispute among family members over a deceased's estate and its distribution. The corpus reflects a commercial High Court judge with a broad grasp of company, banking and tort litigation and the procedural tools used to manage it.