Jurisdiction

10 cases · April 2025 to June 2026

Case Volume by Year

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25
9
26
2025–2026

Key Issues & Sub-Topics

Sessions Court — Monetary limit — Aggregate award exceeding RM1,000,000 — Whether fatal to jurisdiction — Representative claims below statutory ceiling — Jurisdiction preserved. 3 Sessions Court — Territorial jurisdiction — Administrative transfer of judge — Whether judge functus officio upon transfer — Residual authority to deliver reserved judgment — Form versus substance. 3 Sessions Court — Territorial limits — Section 59 Subordinate Courts Act 1948 — Whether local limits assigned by valid Gazette order — Absence of assignment — Jurisdiction extends throughout Peninsular Malaysia 3 Scope of adjudicator’s jurisdiction under s.27 CIPAA — Whether adjudicator exceeded jurisdiction by considering conduct and practice — Whether adjudicator determined dispute beyond matters referred 2 Civil court — Registered land — Cancellation of title — Relief consequent upon Syariah order — Interaction between Syariah jurisdiction and National Land Code. 1 High Court — Whether court hearing s 36(2) application may grant leave notwithstanding admission petition pending in another High Court — Whether determination confined to leave under s 36(2A). 1 High Court — Limits of supervisory probate jurisdiction — No power to review or overturn Court of Appeal order — Application not maintainable in substance 1 Statutory jurisdiction — Limits of court’s power — Whether consent of parties can confer jurisdiction — Court bound by statutory conditions. 1 Civil Court — Shariah Court — Jurisdictional Overlap — Double Proceedings — Joint Fixed Deposit Account — Survivorship Clause — Right of Survivorship — Hibah (Gift) — Pemberian Ikhlas — Alang Semasa Hidup — Shariah Courts (Kedah Darul Aman) Enactment 2008 -Faraid — Islamic Inheritance Law — Estate of the Deceased — Probate and Administration — Sijil Faraid — Contract Law — Breach of Contract — Federal List — State List — Undue influence — Cognitive Capacity — Muslim and Non-Muslim Parties — Corporate Entity — Shariah Advisory Council (SAC) — Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) — Conventional Banking — Islamic Banking — Central Bank Act of Malaysia 2009 1

Scope of adjudicator’s jurisdiction under s.27 CIPAA — Whether adjudicator exceeded jurisdiction by considering conduct and practice — Whether adjudicator determined dispute beyond matters referred 2 cases

Civil court — Registered land — Cancellation of title — Relief consequent upon Syariah order — Interaction between Syariah jurisdiction and National Land Code. 1 case

High Court — Whether court hearing s 36(2) application may grant leave notwithstanding admission petition pending in another High Court — Whether determination confined to leave under s 36(2A). 1 case

High Court — Limits of supervisory probate jurisdiction — No power to review or overturn Court of Appeal order — Application not maintainable in substance 1 case

Civil Court — Shariah Court — Jurisdictional Overlap — Double Proceedings — Joint Fixed Deposit Account — Survivorship Clause — Right of Survivorship — Hibah (Gift) — Pemberian Ikhlas — Alang Semasa Hidup — Shariah Courts (Kedah Darul Aman) Enactment 2008 -Faraid — Islamic Inheritance Law — Estate of the Deceased — Probate and Administration — Sijil Faraid — Contract Law — Breach of Contract — Federal List — State List — Undue influence — Cognitive Capacity — Muslim and Non-Muslim Parties — Corporate Entity — Shariah Advisory Council (SAC) — Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) — Conventional Banking — Islamic Banking — Central Bank Act of Malaysia 2009 1 case

Key Statutes

cited in 3 cases
Federal Constitution
cited in 1 case
cited in 1 case
cited in 1 case

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