Ahmad Shahrizal Bin Abdul Aziz

On the court record

Ahmad Shahrizal Bin Abdul Aziz appears in the reported corpus as counsel across land, employment and company litigation, at the High Court and Court of Appeal. A notable strand of his reported work is the sham transaction: he was engaged as respondent's counsel in a set of Court of Appeal appeals asking whether sale-and-purchase-of-land transactions were sham transactions disguising illegal moneylending, and how far it is appropriate for a court to scrutinise the documents and the underlying transactions where illegality is alleged — a matter that goes to the substance behind an ostensibly genuine conveyance.

His reported work also reaches employment and company law. In an appeal from the Labour Court he was engaged on the unilateral deduction of a productivity allowance from employees who were both pilots, turning on subsection 24(1) of the Employment Act 1955, which restricts deductions from wages. In a company matter he appeared on an oppression claim under section 346 of the Companies Act 2016 concerning the removal of a director, where the reported reasons engage the special-notice requirement — the mandatory twenty-eight days' notice under section 206(3) read with section 322(1) — and the interplay between section 316 and section 322, resolved by the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant, that special provisions derogate from general ones. Across these reported decisions his work moves between the true nature of land dealings, the protection of wages under the employment legislation and the internal governance of companies, marking Ahmad Shahrizal Bin Abdul Aziz as counsel across land, employment and company disputes, attuned both to the substance of a transaction and to the statutory formalities that govern corporate and employment relationships. Taken together the reported matters show counsel moving between the equitable scrutiny of a transaction said to be a sham, the protective provisions of the employment legislation and the mandatory formalities of corporate decision-making, a combination that gives the practice a distinctly cross-disciplinary character rather than a single specialism.