Nurhafizza Azizan

On the court record

Nurhafizza Azizan appears in the reported corpus as counsel across public-law, civil and quasi-criminal litigation. One reported matter raises a point of some novelty on the criminal liability of a registered society: whether there is any provision in the Societies Act 1966 for a society to be prosecuted in its own name, and the effect of section 51, under which every office-bearer is deemed guilty of an offence committed by or in the name of the society, in a matter concerning a political party registered as a society. Her administrative-law work appears in an application for leave for judicial review brought by a Member of Parliament seeking to review a decision not to allocate funds to the applicant's constituency, together with a claim in the nature of mandamus.

Her reported civil work includes a Court of Appeal appeal against an assessment of damages, where the quantum in issue covered the loss of goods in production and the associated profits, the loss of production and profits, the replacement cost of physically damaged machinery and equipment and the cost of repair, together with the discretion to award pre-judgment interest. She was also engaged as respondent's counsel in a matter concerning an order of sale made by the Land Administrator under section 263(1) of the National Land Code, argued alongside a judicial-review point on a blanket approval given by the Minister of Finance under section 49(1)(b) of the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989. Across these reported decisions her work moves between the prosecution and defence of statutory bodies and office-holders, the review of administrative decisions, and the assessment of civil damages, marking Nurhafizza Azizan as counsel comfortable across public-law, land and general civil litigation. The breadth of these reported matters — from the criminal liability of a political party to a Member of Parliament's constituency-funding challenge to a substantial damages assessment — marks a practice that ranges across the public and private divide rather than settling into a single field.