Zalita binti Dato' Hj. Zaidan (pk)

On the judicial record

A cross-section of the commercial and civil workload of a High Court, spanning contract and company disputes between corporate parties and appeals from the subordinate courts, handled at both trial and appellate level.

Zalita binti Dato' Hj. Zaidan sits in the High Court, and this collection is a civil and commercial list drawn from first-instance trials and appeals from the subordinate courts. The parties reflect the commercial character of the docket: property and resort-development companies, a trading and transport enterprise, a technology company and an engineering consultancy appear alongside individual litigants, and several matters come to the court as appeals, with one corporate party appearing as appellant against a subordinate-court decision. The disputes are the everyday stuff of a commercial civil list — claims arising out of agreements between companies and their counterparties, disputes between a developer and those it dealt with, and claims between individuals and the businesses they contracted with. Where a matter reaches the court on appeal, the court's task is to review the decision below against the correct legal standard rather than to retry the dispute. The judgments identify the parties and the nature of the claim, work through the issues, and resolve each on the governing contract or rule. Private individuals are referred to here by role; corporate parties — the development, trading, technology and engineering companies that populate the list — are named. A recurring feature is the court's movement between first-instance fact-finding and the more restrained appellate function, applying to each the standard appropriate to it. In keeping with the site's rules, no absolute count of the matters is stated here; the emphasis is on the character of the work rather than its volume, and the live figures are supplied by the site's own tools. A recurring feature is the court's careful identification of the precise question raised by each agreement or appeal before it turns to resolve it. The collection is a useful cross-section of the commercial and civil workload of a High Court, spanning contract and company disputes between corporate parties and the appeals that come up from the Sessions and Magistrates' Courts, and of how one judge handles both trial and appellate work within a single list.