The lawsuit, lodged by the girl’s father, Wan Amey Shahril Wan Ab Rahman, sought compensation from six defendants – three teachers, the headmistress, the education ministry and the government – for injuries sustained when a classmate allegedly pulled a chair from under her on 12 October 2023.
Judicial Commissioner Anita Harun, delivering an oral judgment, concluded that the plaintiffs had failed to establish either negligence or a causal link between any alleged supervisory shortfall and the girl’s spinal injury, noting that the first defendant, the only teacher present, had been attending to two groups of pupils with differing needs at the time of the fall.
Harun said the evidence did not show that the supervision arrangement was unreasonable, nor that any reasonable precaution omitted by the school would have prevented the incident, adding that the teenager herself admitted the fall happened quickly and without a preceding quarrel.
Senior federal counsel Afiq Nazrin Zaharinan, representing all six defendants, had asked for RM30,000 in costs, while the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Sofian Azmir, sought RM10,000; the court ordered the plaintiffs to pay RM10,000 to the defendants.
Following the verdict, Sofian told reporters the family disagreed with the decision and would lodge an appeal, arguing that several arguments had not been raised and emphasizing that “this case involves an individual with special needs, and there should have been supervision.”
The girl, then 12, was enrolled in a special‑education integrated programme at the school when she fell after a friend pulled away the chair she was about to sit on, leading to a spinal injury that required almost a year of treatment. Her mother, Azera Yazid, first publicised the incident on TikTok in August 2024 before the family pursued legal action.