Dr Johan is currently a high court judge of the Kuala Lumpur high court. He was previously in active legal practice and was the managing partner of J. Lee & Associates, a mediumsize awards-winning legal firm in Malaysia. He graduated with LLB Hons degree from International Islamic University Malaysia. He also holds a Master of Comparative Laws degree, a post-graduate Diploma in Shariah and Legal Practice both of which from International Islamic University Malaysia, an MA in Economics for Competition Law from King’s Collage London and a Ph.D in Business and Commercial Law from Monash University Australia. He was an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya, High Court of Sabah & Sarawak, the Shariah Court and the Supreme Court of Brunei.
Up till his elevation, he lectured part-time in a few local law schools namely IIUM for the LLM and Unisza and Univeristy of Malaya for the LLB programmes and in the IiBF of IIUM for the MSc.in Islamic Banking programme since 2001. He also occasionally conducted in-house trainings to various Islamic banking institutions, governmental and semi-governmental institutions worldwide. He had lectured and provided training in the Institute Latihan Kehakiman (ILKAP) as well as Jabatan Kehakiman Syariah Malaysia (JKSM) for both civil courts and Shariah courts judges concerning Islamic banking and finance. He had also trained the officers from BNM, and all local banks and few other central banks throughout the world on Islamic banking and finance. In 2006, he was a visiting scholar to the Asian Law Centre of the University of Washington. He was a shariah consultant to few governmental agencies as well as few government-funded banks. Besides, he was a member of the Board of Studies of the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, International Islamic University Malaysia for the 2010-2012 tenure. He was also a member of the Board of Studies of the Faculty of Law of University Malaya for the 2015-2017 tenure.
He was in the syllabus endorsement committee in for the INCEIF, and the CIMA. He was accredited as a senior trainer of the IBFIM and a trainer of the Associations of Shariah Advisors (ASAS), Securities Commission (SC), International Council of Islamic Finance Educators ICIFIE and the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC). He was one of the lecturers and examiners for the ASAS CSA/CSP Certification programme for the Shariah scholars. He was the committee of the law reform committee established by the Attorney General office. He was also entrusted to be the judge for the recent Asian Legal Awards 2020 in adjudicating the ‘best of the best’ law firms in this region. He has recently passed the examination and thus is now a Certified Shariah Advisor and Auditor CSAA of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI).
Dr Johan is currently a high court judge of the Kuala Lumpur high court. He was previously in active legal practice and was the managing partner of J. Lee & Associates, a mediumsize awards-winning legal firm in Malaysia. He graduated with LLB Hons degree from International Islamic University Malaysia. He also holds a Master of Comparative Laws degree, a post-graduate Diploma in Shariah and Legal Practice both of which from International Islamic University Malaysia, an MA in Economics for Competition Law from King’s Collage London and a Ph.D in Business and Commercial Law from Monash University Australia. He was an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya, High Court of Sabah & Sarawak, the Shariah Court and the Supreme Court of Brunei.
Up till his elevation, he lectured part-time in a few local law schools namely IIUM for the LLM and Unisza and Univeristy of Malaya for the LLB programmes and in the IiBF of IIUM for the MSc.in Islamic Banking programme since 2001. He also occasionally conducted in-house trainings to various Islamic banking institutions, governmental and semi-governmental institutions worldwide. He had lectured and provided training in the Institute Latihan Kehakiman (ILKAP) as well as Jabatan Kehakiman Syariah Malaysia (JKSM) for both civil courts and Shariah courts judges concerning Islamic banking and finance. He had also trained the officers from BNM, and all local banks and few other central banks throughout the world on Islamic banking and finance. In 2006, he was a visiting scholar to the Asian Law Centre of the University of Washington. He was a shariah consultant to few governmental agencies as well as few government-funded banks. Besides, he was a member of the Board of Studies of the Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, International Islamic University Malaysia for the 2010-2012 tenure. He was also a member of the Board of Studies of the Faculty of Law of University Malaya for the 2015-2017 tenure.
He was in the syllabus endorsement committee in for the INCEIF, and the CIMA. He was accredited as a senior trainer of the IBFIM and a trainer of the Associations of Shariah Advisors (ASAS), Securities Commission (SC), International Council of Islamic Finance Educators ICIFIE and the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC). He was one of the lecturers and examiners for the ASAS CSA/CSP Certification programme for the Shariah scholars. He was the committee of the law reform committee established by the Attorney General office. He was also entrusted to be the judge for the recent Asian Legal Awards 2020 in adjudicating the ‘best of the best’ law firms in this region. He has recently passed the examination and thus is now a Certified Shariah Advisor and Auditor CSAA of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI).
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