Shazreen Nadia binti Zulkipli

On the court record

Focused on medical negligence — the duty of care, informed consent, the Bolam standard, and the assessment of damages for serious injury and death.

Shazreen Nadia binti Zulkipli's appearances in this corpus are in the field of medical negligence. In the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan) she acted as counsel for the appellants in an appeal engaging the core doctrines of clinical-negligence law: the duty of care, informed consent and the failure to disclose material risks, and a departure from a multidisciplinary tumour board's recommendation. The court considered the choice between two treatment modalities — radiofrequency ablation and cryoablation — and applied the Bolam test to the standard of care in treatment and aftercare. The damages questions included general damages for pain and suffering and the assessment of quantum having regard to the severity of the injury, described as a full-thickness burn requiring multiple surgeries and prolonged treatment.

Before the High Court (Mahkamah Tinggi) she acted as counsel for a defendant in a further medical-negligence matter arising from a tragic sequence of events: a road traffic accident that left a patient with multiple fractures requiring surgical intervention with implants, followed by the patient's death before the planned procedure could take place, the death being attributed to fat embolism — a recognised complication. The claim was brought by the estate, and the litigation engaged the standard of care owed in the management of such a patient.

She also acted for a defendant on an application to intervene in a medical-negligence action, where the applicant — a joint administrator of the deceased's estate — sought to be added as a co-plaintiff and to be represented by his own solicitors. The plaintiff objected on the ground of possible inconsistent and conflicting interests, and the court allowed the application, holding that the proposed intervener had a right to be the second plaintiff, with the solicitors to collaborate. Across these matters, Shazreen Nadia binti Zulkipli's practice is focused on medical negligence — the duty of care, informed consent, the Bolam standard, and the assessment of damages for serious injury and death.