Raja Ahmad Mohzanuddin Shah bin Raja Mohzan

On the judicial record

A High Court judge whose reported corpus centres on professional and medical negligence, striking out, defamation and construction disputes.

Justice Raja Ahmad Mohzanuddin Shah bin Raja Mohzan sits in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), and the reported decisions in this corpus are civil and commercial, with professional negligence, striking out, defamation and construction prominent. A notable professional-negligence dispute arises where a bank retained a firm of solicitors to act for it and later alleged breaches by that firm, and a medical-negligence action concerns a home-care arrangement made between a patient's family, two doctors, the hospital and a home-nursing company.

Striking-out applications under Order 18 rule 19 of the Rules of Court are a recurring feature, brought against writs and statements of claim in insurance, takaful and commercial disputes, and decided by reference to whether the claim is plainly unsustainable or an abuse of process rather than by a trial of the merits. Interim injunctive relief also comes before the court, including applications to maintain the status quo pending trial.

Defamation features, including an action arising from allegedly defamatory statements, videos and photographs published online. Public-law and tort claims appear through a challenge to an allegedly wrongful arrest under section 3(1) of the Drug Dependants (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act 1983 and the subsequent detention. Construction disputes arise, including a claim said to be tainted by fraud and conspiracy where a subcontractor was accused of conspiring with the main contractor's officers, and contract disputes such as the right to operate a car park in a building and a breach-of-contract claim on a letter of appointment. Several decisions hear multiple interlocutory applications together, the court disposing of competing strike-out and injunction enclosures in a single reasoned judgment. The corpus reflects a High Court judge managing a broad civil and commercial list, with a marked willingness to test whether a claim can survive a striking-out challenge before it proceeds to a full trial, and to resolve the procedural gateways through which the substantive dispute must travel.