Wan Nur Iman Binti Wan Ahmad Afzal

On the court record

Wan Nur Iman Binti Wan Ahmad Afzal appears in the reported corpus as counsel for the prosecution in serious criminal litigation at the appellate level. At the Federal Court she was engaged as appellant's counsel in a prosecution appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal on four criminal charges faced by the respondent, the matter reaching the apex court on the prosecution's challenge to the intermediate court's disposal of those charges. Her appellate prosecution work is also visible in a cluster of Court of Appeal appeals concerning convictions for criminal breach of trust and the dishonest misappropriation of property under sections 405 and 403 of the Penal Code, argued together with a money-laundering charge under section 4(1)(b) of the Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorism Financing and Proceeds of Unlawful Activities Act 2001 and questions of abetment, where the appeal tested whether the High Court had correctly found the elements established.

Appearing for the prosecution, her reported work engages the state's task on appeal of defending or restoring convictions: sustaining the trial court's findings on the elements of criminal breach of trust — entrustment, dishonest misappropriation and the fiduciary character of the relationship — and the linkage between the predicate offence and the money-laundering charge that accompanies it. The Federal Court appeal, brought by the prosecution against a Court of Appeal decision on multiple charges, sits at the highest tier of criminal litigation, where the correctness of an appellate court's intervention in a conviction is itself put in issue before the apex court. Across these reported decisions she stands on the prosecution side of the record, and the matters mark Wan Nur Iman Binti Wan Ahmad Afzal as counsel engaged in appellate criminal prosecution, arguing the Penal Code and the anti-money-laundering legislation and the standards that govern appellate interference with a trial court's findings.