Lim Sze Han
About Lim Sze Han
Lim Sze Han appears as counsel of record in 4 reported Malaysia judgments (2025). These were heard before MYCOA (2), MYHC (1) and MYFC (1).
On the court record
The reported matters span trial-management, civil–Syariah jurisdiction and the statutory rights of medical practitioners, including a Federal Court appearance, grounded in the judgments.
Lim Sze Han's reported matters run from civil procedure at first instance to constitutional and jurisdictional questions at the apex court, argued in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court. On the procedural side, and appearing for the defendants through Messrs Robin & Partners, he acted in a High Court application for leave to amend a statement of claim, resisted on the ground of delay where the trial had been fixed a year earlier and was due to begin within a month, a matter that tested the balance between allowing amendments and protecting a fixed trial date.
A significant jurisdictional decision is a pair of related Court of Appeal appeals on the reach of the Syariah High Court, where the question was whether a renunciation-of-religion case falls within the jurisdiction of the Syariah Courts, as distinct from an ab initio case, and how a Muslim is defined under the relevant Administration of Religion enactment. Appearing for the respondents, the Court of Appeal disposed of the appeals and made no order as to costs.
The profile also reaches the Federal Court. In an originating summons concerning the interpretation and determination of the vested rights of registered and professionally trained medical practitioners to dispense medicine under the Poisons Act 1952, he appeared for the respondent; because the litigation concerned significant public interests, the Federal Court made no order as to costs. A striking feature of the profile is its range of altitude, from a contested application to amend at the door of trial, through a constitutionally sensitive boundary dispute between the civil and Syariah courts, to a statutory-interpretation question of national reach decided by the apex court. Across these decisions the reported work moves between trial-management and amendment practice, the boundary between the civil and Syariah jurisdictions, and the statutory rights of medical practitioners, argued in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and before the Federal Court of Malaysia.
How many cases has Lim Sze Han appeared in?
Lim Sze Han appears as counsel of record in 4 reported Malaysia judgments (2025).
Which courts does Lim Sze Han appear in?
Lim Sze Han appears before MYCOA (2), MYHC (1) and MYFC (1).
In which courts do Lim Sze Han's reported matters appear?
They were argued in the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Malaysia.
What jurisdictional question did the Syariah-jurisdiction appeals raise?
Whether a renunciation-of-religion case falls within the jurisdiction of the Syariah Courts, as opposed to an ab initio case, and how a Muslim is defined under the relevant Administration of Religion enactment; he appeared for the respondents and the Court made no order as to costs.
What did the Federal Court matter concern?
The interpretation of the vested rights of registered medical practitioners to dispense medicine under the Poisons Act 1952, in which, given the public interest, the Federal Court made no order as to costs.