The “Writing Better Judgments 2/2023” Course was held on 21 st -23 rd September 2023 (Thursday-Saturday) at Zenith Hotel Putrajaya. The course objective was to achieve the 5Cs in judgment writing to be clear, concise, comprehensive, coherent and convincing.

This three-day course consisted of 12 sessions namely “Why Good Judgments Matter?”, “Issues Based Approach to Judgment Writing: The Conceptual Framework”, “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 Road to Judgment”, “Second Breakout Group Session: Workshop – Review of the Re-written First Page and List of Headings”, “Managing Procrastination and Competing Priorities”, “Workshop on Practical Issue Identification” dan “Third Breakout Group Session: Workshop – Review of The Re-written Submitted Judgment”.

Each participant was given a task to rewrite a sample of judgment ground based on the suggested principles in this course and then submitted the judgement to the facilitators of their respective groups. The participants were divided into four groups consisting of 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 20 participants consisting of 12 High Court Judges and eight 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, Malaysia; The Right Honourable Tan Sri Dato’ Abdul Rahman bin Sebli, Chief Judge of the High Court in Sabah and Sarawak; 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 Malaysian Judicial Academy; The Honourable Dato’ Mary Lim Thiam Suan, Federal Court Judge; 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, Judge of the Court of Appeal; 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 Datuk Vazeer Alam bin Mydin Meera, Judge of the Court of Appeal; The Honourable Datuk Ravinthran a/l N. Paramaguru, Judge of the Court of Appeal; and The Honourable Dato’ Che Mohd Ruzima bin Ghazali Judge of the Court of Appeal; and The Honourable Datuk See Mee ChunJudge of the Court of Appeal.