Vazeer Alam bin Mydin Meera

On the judicial record

A cross-section of a docket spanning winding up under the Companies Act 1965, the electricity utility's recovery claims against commercial consumers, and general civil disputes, applying a disciplined approach to the source of each claim.

Vazeer Alam bin Mydin Meera appears in this collection sitting in the Court of Appeal and the High Court, and the docket spans company, public-utility and general civil law. Company and insolvency law is engaged through the winding-up ground under section 21(1)(f) of the former Companies Act 1965 and its application to a company. Public-utility litigation features through the national electricity utility's claim against commercial consumers, including a hotel and related businesses, concerning charges for electricity and the recovery of amounts said to be due — the kind of dispute that turns on the metering and the statutory basis of the charge. General civil work appears through a dispute between individual litigants and through a matter involving a student and a school and its principal, raising the responsibilities owed within an educational setting and the standard of care expected of those entrusted with young people. The judgments identify the governing statute or contractual basis and apply it to the facts. Private individuals are referred to here by role; corporate, governmental and institutional parties — the electricity utility, the companies and the school among them — are named. A recurring theme is the court's attention to the statutory or contractual foundation of a claim, whether it is the ground relied on to wind up a company, the basis for a utility's charge, or the duty owed in an institutional setting. Whether sitting at first instance or on appeal, the court asks whether that foundation is made out before the consequence follows, so that a winding-up order, a utility's recovery or a finding of institutional responsibility rests on an established legal basis. The collection is a useful cross-section of a docket that moves between corporate insolvency, public-utility recovery and everyday civil disputes, and of how the same disciplined approach to the source of a claim carries across very different subject matter.