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Overtaken by events — Hafiz Hassan

OCTOBER 7 — Law is a discipline, wrote Kathleen M. Sullivan, then Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School...

Overtaken by events — Hafiz Hassan

High Court Judge Raja Azlan Shah, once known as Raja Azlan Shah, provided a clear interpretation of law in the case of Reddy v Employees Provident Fund Board [1967] 2 MLJ 82. The judgment, delivered at the young age of 39, set a precedent by emphasizing the use of "interpretive techniques of problem solving" to disaggregate and order the messy jumble of facts, as outlined by Kathleen M. Sullivan in her 2002 Stanford Law School lecture.

This approach is crucial in solving legal problems, as it provides a method of analysis and a way of working that gives normative force to interpretation and analysis.

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