Courts of Malaysia
The Sultan Abdul Samad Building nearby
Merdeka Square formerly housed the superi-
or courts of the country. Today the courts
have shifted to either the Palace of Justice in
Putrajaya during the early 2000s, or the Ku-
ala Lumpur Courts Complex in 2007.
Malaysia is a federation of thirteen states,
but judicial power in the federation is almost
exclusively vested
in a
federal court
system.
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The court system in Malaysia has its origins
in the 1807 charter known as the First
Charter of Justice whereby the British East
India Company obtained from the British
Crown the right to establish a permanent
Court of Judicature in the settlement of
Penang.
Prior to the formation of Malaysia in 1963,
there were
three Supreme Courts
of
Judicature in Commonwealth South-east Asia:
• The Supreme Court of the Federation of
Malaya
• The Supreme Court of Singapore
• The Supreme Court of Sarawak, North
Borneo and Brunei
Each Supreme Court consisted of a High
Court and a Court of Appeal, and was headed
by a Chief Justice.
Formation of Malaysia
In 1963 the remaining British territories in
Southeast Asia, save Brunei, were incorpor-
ated into an enlarged federation of Malaysia.
The 1963 Federal Constitution replaced the
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various Courts of Appeal with a single Feder-
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