Lawyers label Shafee’s attack on prosecution as professional misconduct
Senior lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah is representing former prime minister Najib Razak in his criminal cases. PETALING JAYA: Members of the legal community have hit out at their colleague Muhammad Shafee Abdullah over his remarks against the prosecution in his defence of former prime minister Najib Razak, saying the lawyer breached the profession’s code of…
Pathologist in Ivana inquest says conclusions drawn from ‘experience’
Forensics expert Dr Nurliza Abdullah has taken part in 6,000 post-mortems. KUALA LUMPUR: A pathologist testifying in the inquest into Ivana Smit’s death last year told the Coroner’s Court here today that the conclusions reached in the Dutch model’s post-mortem were drawn from police evidence and similar cases of victims falling from a height. Forensic…
Ivana’s lawyer slams ‘despicable’ American-Kazakh couple
Alex Johnson and his wife Luna Almaz. KUALA LUMPUR: The lawyer representing Ivana Smit’s family today sought court intervention with regards to an article published over the weekend claiming the Dutch model had fallen to her death last year out of her own “youthful recklessness”. SN Nair, who is holding a watching brief at the…
Tensions flare at Ivana inquest as witness defends pre-autopsy SOP
Forensics medicine specialist Dr Nurliza Abdullah. KUALA LUMPUR: The inquest into the death of Dutch model Ivana Smit turned tense at the Coroner’s Court here today after a witness disagreed with the family’s counsel that standard operating procedures (SOP) were not followed before her autopsy. The exchange took place between forensics medicine specialist Dr Nurliza…