The “Writing Better Judgments 1/2024” Course was held on 16th - 18th May 2024 at Putrajaya Marriott Hotel. The course objective was to achieve 5Cs in judgment writing - “Clear, Concise, Comprehensive, Coherent and Convincing”.

This three-day course consisted of 13 sessions namely “The Road to Judgment”, “Issues Based Approach to Judgment Writing: The Conceptual Framework”, “Finding the Judicial Voice in the Uncertainty of Language”, “The First Page and Creating Headings”, “First Breakout Group Session: Individual Feedback Session and Exercise on Re-writing the First Page and Creating Headings”, “The Structural Construct of an Issues Based Judgment”, “Issues Based Approach Judgment Writing in Criminal Cases”, “Challenges of Judgment Writing”, “The Judge”, “Second Breakout Group Session: Workshop – Review of the Re-written First Page and List of Headings”, “Managing Procrastination and Competing Priorities”, “Practical Issue Identification”, and “Third Breakout Group Session: Workshop – Review of The Re-written Submitted Judgment”.

Each participant was given a task to rewrite a sample of ground of judgment based on the suggested principles in this course and then submitted the ground judgment to the facilitators of their respective groups. The participants were divided into four groups consisting of four to five members per group. The participants of each group were guided by three facilitators who are judges from Federal Court and the Court of Appeal.

A total of 17 participants, all of whom are Judicial Commissioners, participated in the course.  The facilitators of this course were The Right Honourable Tan Sri Datuk Amar Abang Iskandar bin Abang Hashim, President of the Court of Appeal; The Honourable Dato’ Zabariah binti Mohd. Yusof, Federal Court Judge; The Honourable Dato’ Sri Hasnah binti Dato' Mohammed Hashim, Federal Court Judge cum the Chairman of the Training Committee of Judicial Academy of Malaysia; The Honourable Datuk Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal, Federal Court Judge; The Honourable Dato’ Nordin bin Hassan, Federal Court Judge; The Honourable Dato’ Abu Bakar bin Jais, Federal Court Judge; The Honourable Datuk Abdul Karim bin Abdul Jalil, Federal Court Judge; The Honourable Datuk Hanipah binti Farikullah, Federal Court Judge; The Honourable Datuk Vazeer Alam bin Mydin Meera, Federal Court Judge; The Honourable Datuk Seri Kamaludin bin Md Said, Judge of the Court of Appeal; The Honourable Dato’ Lee Swee Seng, Judge of the Court of Appeal; The Honourable Datuk Hajah Azizah binti Haji Nawawi, Judge of the Court of Appeal; The Honourable Dato’ Che Mohd Ruzima bin Ghazali, Judge of the Court of Appeal; The Honourable Datuk See Mee Chun, Judge of the Court of Appeal; The Honourable Dato’ Hashim bin Hamzah, Judge of the Court of Appeal; and The Honourable Dato’ Haji Azman bin Abdullah, Judge of the Court of Appeal.