High court (Malaysia)

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Third-highest courts in the hierarchy of courts in Malaysia

High Court of Malaya/ High Court of Sabah and Sarawak
Mahkamah Tinggi Malaya/ Mahkamah Tinggi Sabah dan Sarawak
Sabah and Sarawak: 13 (including 5 vacancies)
Website	www.kehakiman.gov.my
Chief Judge of the High Court of Malaya
Currently	Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah
Since	17 January 2023
Chief Judge of the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak
Currently	Abdul Rahman Sebli
Since	17 January 2023

The high courts in

Court of Appeal. Article 121 of the Constitution of Malaysia provides that there shall be two high courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction—the High Court in Malaya and the High Court in Sabah and Sarawak (before 1994, the High Court in Borneo). Before 1969, the High Court in Singapore was also part of the Malaysian courts system (see Law of Singapore

).

The High Court in Malaya has its principal registry in Kuala Lumpur, with other registries to be found in all states in Peninsular Malaysia, while the High Court in Sabah and Sarawak has its principal registry in Kuching, with other registries elsewhere in Sabah and Sarawak. There are in total 22 high court registries across all 13 states in Malaysia.^[1] The two High Courts also travel on circuit to other smaller towns.

The two high courts, the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court are classified as superior courts, while the magistrates' courts and the sessions courts are classified as the subordinate courts. The high courts function both as a court of

Lord President of the Federal Court) and the President of the Court of Appeal.^[2]

High court registries in Malaysia

All high court registries and the subordinate courts found in Peninsular Malaysia including the courts in the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya are under the jurisdiction of the High Court in Malaya. Similarly, all courts found in East Malaysia are under the jurisdiction of the High Court in Sabah and Sarawak including the courts in the Federal Territory of Labuan.

Miri

Sibu

Bintulu

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Locations of High Courts in Malaysia

Malaya

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Malayan Union (1946-1948)

1947–1948: Harold Curwen Willan^[3]

Chief Justice of the Federation of Malaya (1957–1963)

• 1957–1963:
  Tun Sir James Thomson

• 1963–1966:
  Tun Sir James Thomson
• 1966–1968:
  Syed Sheh Hassan Barakbah
• 1966–1974:
  Tun Mohamed Azmi Mohamed
• 1974–1982:
  Tun Mohamed Suffian Mohamed Hashim
• 1982–1984:
  Azlan Shah
• 1984–1989:
  Tun Salleh Abas
• 1989–1994:
  Tun Abdul Hamid Omar

Source:[4]

• 1963-1966: Syed Sheh Barakbah
• 1966-1968: Mohamed Azmi Mohamed
• 1968-1973: Ong Hock Thye
• 1973-1974: Mohamed Suffian Mohamed Hashim
• 1974-1979: Pajan Sarwan Singh Gill
• 1979-1982:
  Yang di-Pertuan Agong
  of Malaysia)
• 1982-1984: Salleh Abas
• 1984-1989: Abdul Hamid Omar
• 1989-1992: Hashim Yeop Sani
• 1992-1994: Gunn Chit Tuan

Some modern texts will refer to them as Chief Judges.^[5]

Chief Judge of Malaya (since 1994)

• 1994:
  Mohamed Eusoff Chin
• 1994–1997: Anuar Zainal Abidin
• 1997–2000: Wan Adnan Ismail
• 2000–2002: Ahmad Fairuz Abdul Halim
• 2002–2004: Haidar Mohamed Noor
• 2004–2006: Siti Norma Yaakob
• 2007–2008: Alauddin Sheriff
• 2008–2011: Arifin Zakaria
• 2011–2017: Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin
• 2017–2018: Ahmad Maarop
• 2018–2019: Zaharah Ibrahim
• 2019–2022: Azahar Mohamed
• 2023–present: Mohamad Zabidin

Borneo (North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak)

Singapore

See also

• Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements
• Federal Court of Malaysia
• Malaysian Court of Appeal
• Judiciary of Malaysia
• Lord President of the Federal Court
• Chief Justice of Malaysia
• President of the Court of Appeal of Malaysia
• Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak
• 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal

References