Shahriza Zalina binti Abdul Shukor

On the judicial record

A focused guide to how a High Court applies the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 — setting aside and enforcing adjudication decisions on narrow jurisdictional grounds — and the summary and default-judgment procedure that accompanies construction disputes.

Shahriza Zalina binti Abdul Shukor sits in the High Court, and this collection is strongly concentrated in construction-payment and adjudication law, authored in English. The dominant strand is the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 (CIPAA): applications to set aside an adjudication decision and to enforce it, questions of the adjudicator's core jurisdiction and whether the construction contract was in writing, and challenges founded on an excess of jurisdiction under sections 15, 16 and 28 of the Act. These matters frequently arrive as paired applications — one party seeking to set aside a decision while the other seeks to enforce it — and the court must decide both together. Around that core sits a body of civil procedure: applications to set aside a judgment in default of appearance and whether the writ and statement of claim were validly served, and summary judgment under Order 14 of the Rules of Court 2012, where the burden lies on the defendant to show a bona fide triable issue and bare allegations will not suffice. Contract questions arise, including privity and authority to contract for temple renovation works where persons were later declared trespassers. Banking and tort matters round out the list. The judgments work carefully through the statutory adjudication framework, distinguishing between a challenge to jurisdiction and a disagreement with the merits, consistent with the Act's purpose of preserving cash flow in the construction industry. Private individuals are referred to by role; corporate and institutional parties are named. A recurring theme is the temporary finality of an adjudication decision and the narrow grounds on which the court will disturb it, a discipline that keeps payment flowing while the parties' final rights are worked out elsewhere. The collection is a clear and focused guide to how a High Court applies CIPAA and the summary and default-judgment procedure that often accompanies construction disputes, and to the line the court draws between reviewing jurisdiction and re-opening the merits.