Hazwanie Binti Husain Bustari

On the court record

A broad serious-crime prosecution practice in the High Court, spanning drug trafficking, sexual offences and violent crime.

Hazwanie Binti Husain Bustari appears for the prosecution in the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi), and the reported decisions describe a broad serious-crime practice conducted at trial and on appeal, framed as criminal trials ("perbicaraan jenayah") and criminal appeals ("rayuan jenayah"). Drug prosecutions are central — trafficking under "seksyen 39B Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952" (section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952) and the possession and lesser-offence provisions in sections 9 and 12 of the Act — but the offence base is wide.

The reported catchwords reach sexual offences under the rape provision in "seksyen 376" of the Penal Code, attempted murder under "seksyen 307", and the procedural provisions governing the close of the prosecution case in "seksyen 180" of the Criminal Procedure Code, together with the common-intention provision in section 34. The practice therefore spans drug enforcement, offences against the person and violent crime, prosecuted at first instance and defended on appeal from the subordinate courts.

The prosecution task in these matters is to prove the statutory elements of a range of serious offences and to establish a case to answer at the close of its evidence. In the drug matters the argument engages the trafficking presumptions and the choice of charge; in the sexual-offence matters the elements and protective evidential rules; in the attempted-murder matters the intention required; and in the appeals whether a decision of the court below should stand. The work combines primary trial advocacy with appellate prosecution.

The overall profile is a general serious-crime prosecution practice in the High Court, spanning drug trafficking, sexual offences and violent crime. The reported reasons turn on the elements of a range of criminal statutes and the close-of-case provisions, rather than on any civil or public-law question, marking a broad prosecution practice across the serious offence categories. The breadth from drug enforcement to attempted murder reflects a prosecutor deployed across the serious offence range rather than confined to a single scheme.