Zaleha binti Yusof

On the judicial record

Illustrates an apex- and appellate-level judge working across electricity-supply regulation under the Electricity Supply Act 1990, trade finance under UCP 600, the defamation defences of fair comment and reportage, and constitutional review.

Zaleha binti Yusof appears in this collection sitting in the Federal Court and the Court of Appeal, and the docket is a rich mix of public utility, commercial and constitutional law. Electricity-supply litigation is a recurring theme: the scope and limitations of the statutory power of disconnection under section 38(1) of the Electricity Supply Act 1990, and meter-tampering liability with questions of entry and inspection, limitation, and exemplary or aggravated damages. Banking and trade finance feature through the standard for examination of documents presented under a letter of credit under UCP 600 and the treatment of an ocean bill of lading. Defamation is addressed in a leading appeal on the defence of fair comment, concerning the substratum of facts on which a comment must rest, and in a media appeal on reportage and the Reynolds defence. Constitutional and administrative law is engaged in judicial-review appeals concerning the validity of a fatwa and the jurisdiction of the Syariah Courts, and in review applications under rule 137 of the Rules of the Federal Court for breach of natural justice. Capital-markets regulation appears through compliance with the ACE Market Listing Requirements, and housing-development law through the jurisdiction of the tribunal over split claims under sections 16Q and 16M of the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966. Committal proceedings for non-compliance with a money judgment round out the range. Because these matters are decided in panels and bind or guide the courts below, they settle points of general importance. Private individuals are referred to by role; corporate, governmental, regulatory and media parties are named. The unifying feature is the calibration of statutory and regulatory power against the rights of those it affects — a utility's power to disconnect, a regulator's listing rules, a tribunal's jurisdiction — each measured against its enabling provision and the limits the courts read into it. The collection illustrates how an apex- and appellate-level judge works across utility regulation, trade finance, defamation and constitutional review.