PETALING JAYA: Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s comments on the court battle between Abdul Hadi Awang and Clare Rewcastle Brown in London is ludicrous and has gone beyond decency and legal implications, a lawyer said. S N Nair said the deputy prime minister’s remarks were out of place as the matter was sub-judice because Clare’s potential witness,...
PETALING JAYA: Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali can seek the assistance of the British public prosecutor to extradite fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin to face criminal charges here, a lawyer said. S N Nair said Raja Petra had committed cyber law crimes of both nations by posting offensive, malicious or false articles on Apandi and several...
PETALING JAYA: The Attorney-General’s (AG) decision to appoint his officer to oversee police investigations into allegations that a senior Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officer was having a tryst with a married woman in Bali, Indonesia, is setting a wrong precedent, a lawyer said. SN Nair said Mohamed Apandi Ali had no legal authority to set...
PETALING JAYA: Police must immediately investigate the man in a video, telling patrons at a cafe in Flora Damansara to dress “appropriately” in respect of the majority Muslim community living in their area, a lawyer said today. SN Nair said that if the video clip, which has gone viral on social media, was authentic, the...
PETALING JAYA: A Federal Court decision is to determine conclusively whether a government body may sue an individual for defamation, says lawyer S N Nair. He said while the law under section 3 of the Government Proceedings Act (GPA) 1956 had been well enumerated by the majority judgment of the Court of Appeal, it appeared...
PETALING JAYA: Two civil lawyers have taken a different route on who should be named as party to a lawsuit when smooth trips on tolled roads are disrupted due to massive traffic jams or accidents. Lawyer SN Nair said it should be the highway watchdog, the Malaysian Highway Authority. However, counsel Harpal Singh Grewal was...
Damansara Utama assemblyperson Yeo Bee Yin has urged Sungai Besar Umno division chief Jamal Md Yunos to respond to her RM5 million defamation suit against him. Speaking to reporters at the Kuala Lumpur High Court lobby, Yeo said today was the first case management for the suit originally filed on June 14. “It...
PUTRAJAYA, July 11 — DAP MP Teresa Kok won again in her long eight-year legal battle when the Federal Court today ruled in her favour and maintained a RM350,000 compensation over her wrongful arrest in 2008. The Federal Court dismissed the government’s bid to appeal an earlier court ruling to award RM350,000 to Kok to...
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court today affirmed the RM350,000 in damages awarded to Seputeh MP Teresa Kok over her detention under the then Internal Security Act (ISA) nine years ago. This follows the decision of a three-man bench chaired by Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Richard Malanjum to dismiss the government’s leave to appeal...
Opposition leader denounces charges against him as protest gathers steam. Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was freed from custody this morning in an increasingly volatile Kuala Lumpur without being charged over allegations he had sodomized a 23-year-old male volunteer in his office. Tension has been rising, with hundreds of people on the street last night...