Kursus “Writing Better Judgments 2/2023” telah diadakan pada 21-23 September 2023 (Khamis-Sabtu) di Zenith Hotel Putrajaya. Objektif kursus ini adalah untuk mencapai 5C dalam penulisan alasan kehakiman supaya jelas (clear), ringkas (concise), menyeluruh (comprehensive), koheren (coherent) dan meyakinkan (convincing).

Kursus selama tiga hari ini terbahagi kepada 12 sesi berkenaan “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”.

Setiap peserta diberi tugasan untuk menulis semula sampel alasan penghakiman berdasarkan kepada prinsip-prinsip yang telah disarankan dalam kursus ini dan seterusnya mengemukakan alasan penghakiman berkenaan kepada fasilitator-fasilitator kumpulan masing-masing. Para peserta telah dibahagikan kepada empat kumpulan yang terdiri daripada lima ahli bagi setiap kumpulan dengan setiap kumpulan dibimbing oleh tiga orang fasilitator yang terdiri daripada hakim-hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan dan Mahkamah Rayuan.

Seramai 20 orang peserta yang terdiri daripada 12 orang Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi dan 8 orang Pesuruhjaya Kehakiman telah menghadiri kursus ini. Barisan fasilitator kursus ini ialah YAA Tan Sri Datuk Amar Abang Iskandar bin Abang Hashim, Presiden Mahkamah Rayuan; YAA Tan Sri Dato’ Abdul Rahman bin Sebli, Hakim Besar Mahkamah Tinggi di Sabah dan Sarawak; YA Dato’ Zabariah binti Mohd. Yusof, Hakim Mahkamah Persekutuan; YA Dato’ Sri Hasnah binti Dato' Mohammed Hashim, Hakim Mahkamah Pesekutuan merangkap Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Latihan, Akademi Kehakiman Malaysia; YA Dato’ Mary Lim Thiam Suan, Hakim Mahkamah Pesekutuan; YA Datuk Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal, Hakim Mahkamah Pesekutuan; YA Dato’ Nordin bin Hassan, Hakim Mahkamah Pesekutuan; YA Dato’ Abu Bakar bin Jais, Hakim Mahkamah Pesekutuan; YA Datuk Abdul Karim bin Abdul Jalil, Hakim Mahkamah Pesekutuan; YA Datuk Hanipah binti Farikullah, Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan; YA Datuk Seri Kamaludin bin Md Said, Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan; YA Dato’ Lee Swee Seng, Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan; YA Datuk Hajah Azizah binti Haji Nawawi, Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan; YA Datuk Vazeer Alam bin Mydin Meera, Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan; YA Datuk Ravinthran a/l N. Paramaguru, Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan; YA Dato’ Che Mohd Ruzima bin Ghazali, Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan; dan YA Datuk See Mee Chun, Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan.

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.