Nurul Qistini Binti Qamarul Abrar

On the court record

The reported matters document prosecution advocacy in corruption and proceeds-of-crime cases at the pre-trial and appellate stages, grounded in the judgments.

Nurul Qistini Binti Qamarul Abrar's reported matters are in the criminal sphere, appearing for the prosecution in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, including in corruption and proceeds-of-crime cases. A decision in the Special Corruption High Court concerned charges under section 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 and an application to transfer the case from a subordinate court to the High Court. Appearing for the respondent to that application, the Court found the application to be without merit and dismissed it, leaving the prosecution to proceed in the ordinary way.

At the appellate level, she appeared for the prosecution in a group of related Court of Appeal appeals against conviction and sentence. The charges there concerned criminal breach of trust under sections 405 and 403 of the Penal Code, abetment, and an offence under section 4(1)(b) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001. The appeals raised, among other issues, whether the trial court had properly assessed the credibility of the principal prosecution witnesses and whether the charges could be sustained on the evidence, so the prosecution's task was to defend the safety of the convictions entered below.

Taken together the reported matters show prosecution advocacy across two of the more demanding fields of criminal practice, corruption under the dedicated 2009 Act and criminal breach of trust combined with money laundering, at both the pre-trial and appellate stages. A thread across these decisions is the state's effort to bring and sustain charges of dishonesty against the resistance of the defence, whether by resisting a transfer application or by defending convictions on appeal, argued in the High Court and before the Court of Appeal of Malaysia. The reported work is squarely in the field of financial and corruption crime, where the prosecution must build and sustain a case on documents, tracing and witness credibility rather than on any single decisive act.