Raja Rozela binti Raja Toran

On the judicial record

A High Court judge whose reported corpus sits at the centre of corporate insolvency and creditor enforcement under the Companies Act 2016.

Justice Raja Rozela binti Raja Toran sits in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), and the reported decisions in this corpus are strongly concentrated in company law, insolvency and bankruptcy — the winding-up and creditor-recovery list. Winding-up practice recurs across the docket: applications to terminate a winding-up order where a contributory and former director had expended substantial sums to redeem charged land and settle purchasers' claims under a settlement agreement, and disputes over whether a liquidator breached an understanding not to proceed with liquidation. Scheme-of-arrangement questions arise under section 366 of the Companies Act 2016, including whether a debenture is void and how a liquidator should treat a purchaser under such a scheme.

Creditor entitlements are examined in detail, including the entitlement of secured creditors to claim interest after a winding-up order and whether sums received from the Government form part of the secured assets or are available to the general body of creditors. Minority-oppression and winding-up petitions come before the court under sections 346 and 465 of the Companies Act 2016, several brought by investors who subscribed to Redeemable Preference Shares Islamic (RPS-i) under subscription agreements and an information memorandum.

Bankruptcy work is prominent through judgment-creditor appeals against the setting aside or striking out of a bankruptcy notice, several turning on whether the debtor's application to set aside was properly made and on the registrar's exercise of discretion. Summary-judgment applications under Order 14 of the Rules of Court also feature, where the defendants' failure to file an affidavit in reply was treated as an admission of the pleaded facts. Applications to amend a winding-up petition — for example to substitute the proposed liquidator following a post-filing development — and questions of whether the court is functus officio and lacks jurisdiction to hear a further application also feature. The corpus reflects a High Court judge whose reported work sits at the centre of corporate insolvency and creditor enforcement, decided by close application of the Companies Act 2016, the Companies (Winding-Up) Rules and the insolvency framework governing the priorities between competing creditors.