The course “Appellate Intervention and Revision” is the fifth course organised by the Judicial Academy this year after other courses such as “Company Law” on 23 & 24 February 2013, “The Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012: The Role of the Court” on 15 & 16 March 2013, “How To Deal With Cases Under 39B of The Dangerous Drugs Act 1952” on 20 & 21 April 2013 and “Islamic Finance Workshop Series for Judges: Managing Islamic Banking Cases” on 28 & 29 June 2013.

A total of 14 participants attended this course. They were made up of 11 High Court judges and 3 Judicial Commissioners. The facilitators were The Rt. Hon. Tan Sri Md. Raus bin Sharif, President of the Court of Appeal and The Hon. Datuk Zaharah binti Ibrahim, Judge of the Court of Appeal

This course was divided into 6 sessions. In each session, groups of 4 persons presented their respective topics of dicsussion as pre-determined by the facilitators. The time given for each presentation and ensuing discussion was between 1-2 hours. The topics for each module and group are as follows:

Session I (Group 1) Module 1 : Appellate Intervention on Judicial Review	Session II (Group 2) Module 2 : Appellate Intervention on Sentencing
Presenter YA Dato' Haji Abdul Halim bin Aman Members YA Puan Amelia Tee Hong Geok binti Abdullah YA Dato’ Mohd. Zaki bin Abdul Wahab YA Tuan Samsudin bin Hassan	Presenter YA Dato’ Mohd. Zaki bin Md. Yasin Members YA Dato’ Ahmad Zaidi bin Ibrahim YA Dato’ Abdul Rahman bin Sebli YA Tuan Teo Say Eng
Session III (Group 2) Module 3 : Appellate Intervention on Finding of Facts	Session IV (Group 4) Module 4 : Appellate Intervention in Running Down Cases
Presenter YA Dato’ Mohd. Sofian bin Tan Sri Abd. Razak Members YA Dato’ Sri Mariana binti Haji Yahya YA Dato’ Ahmadi bin Haji Asnawi YA Dato’ Zamani bin A. Rahim	Presenter YA Dato’ Ahmad Zaidi bin Ibrahim Members YA Dato’ Mohd. Sofian bin Tan Sri Abd. Razak YA Dato’ Ahmadi bin Haji Asnawi YA Tuan Teo Say Eng
Session V (Group 5) Module 5 : Revisionary Powers of a High Court Judge	Session VI (Group 6) Module 6 : Limits to Appellate Criticism
Presenter YA Dato’ Haji Azman bin Abdullah Members YA Dato’ Haji Abdul Halim bin Aman YA Dato’ Mohd. Zaki bin Md. Yasin YA Tuan Samsudin bin Hassan	Presenter YA Dato’ Sri Mariana binti Haji Yahya Members YA Puan Amelia Tee Hong Geok binti Abdullah YA Dato’ Haji Zainal Azman bin Abdul Aziz YA Dato’ Abdul Rahman bin Sebli

The facilitators ended the course with concluding remarks and an overview of the subject matter.