Solehah Noratikah binti Ismail

On the court record

An appellate criminal-prosecution practice in the Court of Appeal, concentrated on murder and drug trafficking.

Solehah Noratikah binti Ismail appears in the Court of Appeal (Mahkamah Rayuan), and the reported decisions place her on the prosecution side and as respondent in serious criminal appeals. The two dominant subjects are homicide — murder under "seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan" (section 302 of the Penal Code) — and drug trafficking under "seksyen 39B(1)(a) Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952" (section 39B(1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952).

The appeals are largely "rayuan terhadap sabitan dan hukuman" (appeals against conviction and sentence). They engage the intention element in the homicide matters and the possession and trafficking presumptions in the drug matters, together with the lesser and alternative charges available under "seksyen 12" of the Dangerous Drugs Act and procedural provisions such as "seksyen 348" governing the conduct of proceedings, and the defence of unsoundness of mind under "seksyen 84" of the Penal Code where it is raised.

Acting mainly as prosecution and respondent, the reported task is to defend the High Court's conviction and sentence against a convicted person's challenge, meeting arguments on the sufficiency of the evidence, the drawing of the presumptions and the availability of a defence. In the homicide matters the argument frequently concerns whether the facts support the intention required for murder or a lesser offence; in the drug matters whether possession and knowledge were established and the presumptions properly applied.

The overall profile is an appellate criminal-prosecution practice in the Court of Appeal, concentrated on murder and drug trafficking. The matters turn on the intention element in homicide, the drug presumptions, and the availability of statutory defences, rather than on primary fact-finding at trial, marking a settled appellate speciality at the most serious end of the criminal calendar. The pairing of murder and trafficking appeals is characteristic of prosecution counsel deployed on the gravest offences, where the appellate scrutiny of the conviction is at its most searching.