Privacy Policy

What we collect, why, what we refuse to publish about people, and the choices you have — read alongside Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (Act 709).

The short version

MY Case Law is a free reference site. You can read everything without creating an account, and we ask for no personal information to use the site. The data we handle is limited to standard web analytics, any advertising cookies served by our providers, routine server logs, and whatever you choose to send us when you get in touch. We handle personal data in line with the Personal Data Protection Principles set out in the PDPA 2010, and we apply them to how this site is built regardless of whether any particular part of the Act is engaged by a free, advertising-funded reference site.

We do not publish pages about individuals named as parties

This is the most important thing on this page, so it is not buried at the bottom.

MY Case Law builds pages about judges, counsel, law firms, courts and organisations that appear in published judgments. It does not build them about private individuals named as parties. Where our data identifies a party as a natural person, that entity is permanently excluded: it is never indexed by search engines, and it never appears in any sitemap we publish. That exclusion holds at every case count and at every stage of the site's rollout — there is no threshold at which such a page starts being published, and no future phase in which the rule relaxes.

We do this because of what this corpus actually contains. A large share of Malaysian written judgments are criminal prosecutions, and they name the accused — including, in more than a hundred cases we hold, people who were acquitted. Court judgments are public records, and we do not pretend otherwise. But a public record read one judgment at a time is a different thing from a permanent, search-optimised profile that collects everything ever alleged against a named person and puts it a search away from their name forever. The PDPA 2010 treats information about an individual's alleged or actual offences as sensitive personal data, and building that second thing is the harm we have chosen not to cause.

Individuals are still named inside the text of the judgments themselves, exactly as the court published them — we do not rewrite the record. What we decline to do is aggregate a person into a profile page and invite search engines to it. This rule is enforced in our build, not left to editorial memory: an automated check fails our release process if any page about an individual party becomes indexable or reachable through a sitemap.

Information we collect

• Usage analytics. We use privacy-respecting web analytics to understand which pages are read and how visitors arrive. This may set cookies and collect data such as your approximate location, device and browser type, and the pages you visit. We do not use it to identify you personally.
• Server logs. The site is served through Cloudflare, which processes IP addresses and request metadata to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse.
• Messages. If you write to us, we receive your contact details and whatever you include in the message. We use them only to reply and to act on corrections or data-removal requests; we do not add you to any mailing list.

Advertising and cookies

We may display advertising to keep the site free. Where we do, third-party vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Their use of advertising cookies enables them and their partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Where advertising is served by Google, you may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, and you can opt out of many other third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info/choices. You can also clear or block cookies in your browser's settings at any time.

What we don't do

• We don't sell or trade personal data.
• We don't require accounts, and we hold no user database.
• We don't send marketing email.
• We don't build profile pages about individuals named as parties — see above.
• We don't rank, score or compare the people named in judgments by their outcomes.

About the people named in judgments

Pages on this site name judges, counsel and organisations because they appear in written judgments — public records released by the Malaysian Judiciary (Kehakiman Malaysia) through eJudgment. We compile from those primary sources and add no private information about anyone: no addresses, no identification numbers, no contact details, nothing that is not already in the published judgment or on a professional register. If you are named in a judgment and something on this site is wrong, out of date, or should not be here, we operate a visible channel to ask us to fix it — see below and our corrections and data-removal policy.

Your rights, and how to exercise them

The PDPA 2010 gives individuals the right to ask what personal data is held about them (a data access request) and to ask for it to be corrected where it is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date (a data correction request). In practice we hold very little: any correspondence you send us, and — if you are named in a written judgment — the information already in that public record, as described above.

To make a data access or data correction request, or to ask us to correct or remove a page about you, email [email protected]. Please include the URL of the page and what specifically is wrong. We check every request against the primary source and reply. There is no charge, and you do not need a lawyer to ask.

Two honest limits. First, we compile from the published record: where a judgment itself is the source of what you are objecting to, the correction that matters is the one made by the court or the publisher of the judgment, and we will tell you so rather than quietly ignore the request. Second, we can act quickly on our own pages — removing an entity page, or correcting the data behind it — and that is usually what a request is really asking for.

If you are not satisfied with how we have handled a request, you may raise it with the Personal Data Protection Commissioner at the Department of Personal Data Protection (Jabatan Perlindungan Data Peribadi), pdp.gov.my.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle data — for example, when advertising goes live — we will update this page and its "Updated" date. The current version always lives at this URL. The commitment not to publish pages about individuals named as parties is not one of the things we intend to change.