Kota Kinabalu Court Complex | |
Native Name: | Kompleks Mahkamah Kota Kinabalu |
Native Name Lang: | ms |
Building Type: | Court complex |
Address: | No. 1, Kebajikan Road, 88300 |
Location City: | Kota Kinabalu, Sabah |
Location Country: | Malaysia |
Coordinates: | 5.9671°N 116.0807°W |
Groundbreaking Date: | April 2014 |
Start Date: | 22 July 2014 |
Est Completion: | 21 October 2017[1] |
Completion Date: | August 2018[2] |
Opened Date: | September 2018 |
Inauguration Date: | October 2018[3] |
Destruction Date: | --> |
Cost: | RM177 million |
Owner: | Sabah Judicial Department[4] |
Architect: | Shah Architect and Chong Ten Lip |
Unit Count: | --> |
Parking: | 270 lots (19 for judges, 88 for staff at the lower ground, 161 surface car parks, two for disabled people and a parking bay for bus) |
Kota Kinabalu Court Complex (Malay: Kompleks Mahkamah Kota Kinabalu) is a court complex located on a 2.5 hectares (6.25-acre) site land atop Punai Hill in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
The new court complex began to be constructed on 22 July 2014 through federal-funded project since its groundbreaking in April of the same year at a cost of RM177 million as the replacement of an old single high court building before it was completed in 2018.[2] [4] Although the construction completion was delayed for another few months, the developer managed to saved about RM1.4 million from the RM177 allocation by the federal government.[2] In April 2019, the Integrated Court System (ICS) being installed on the complex to improve court management.[3]
The new complex design combining three Sabah's ethnic elements, namely the Kadazan-Dusun, Bajau Laut and Murut that also incorporated motifs of the country national flower of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (Chinese hibiscus), and Sabah's official flower of Rafflesia.[2] The exterior incorporated similar resemblance to the Palace of Justice at Putrajaya.[1] Inside the complex, it has three High Courts, six Magistrates' courts, six Sessions Courts including the Child Sexual Offence Court and a Federal Court.[2]