KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has filed an appeal against the High Court ruling that dismissed his bid to serve the remainder of his SRC International prison sentence under house arrest. His lawyer, Muhammad Farhan Muhammad Shafee, confirmed that the appeal was filed on Dec 24. On Dec 22, the High Court dismissed...
SIBU: The Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) has re-emphasised that the RMRM188,132.26 seized by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has no connection with a donation it received from the then Barisan Nasional chairman Datuk Seri Najib Razak before 2013. In a statement on Sunday (Dec 28), SUPP said political parties in Malaysia, including SUPP, relied on donations...
KUALA LUMPUR: The exercise of clemency by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is not absolute as it has to be carried out in accordance with Constitutional limits, says the High Court. Justice Alice Loke, in her decision on Monday (Dec 22), said the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is a constitutional monarch and exercises powers and functions in accordance...
ALOR SETAR: The High Court here has acquitted and discharged a former warden at a private drug rehabilitation centre on a charge of murdering an inmate at the facility in Sintok, Changlun, four years ago. Justice Evawani Farisyta Mohammad ordered Sidi Ahmad Amin Mamat, 50, to be freed on Monday (Dec 22) after ruling that the...
KUALA LUMPUR: A constitutional expert says that the Kuala Lumpur High Court acted in line with the Federal Constitution by dismissing Datuk Seri Najib Razak's judicial review bid over a royal addendum for house arrest. Assoc Prof Dr Khairil Azmin Mokhtar, a law lecturer at Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM), said the ruling should also not...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has awarded RM274,375 in damages to lawyer Siti Kasim and her client over unlawful raid at her house and her subsequent wrongful imprisonment in June 2018. Judicial Commissioner Arziah Mohammed Apandi, in her decision, said the police raid on Siti's home on June 21, 2018, was conducted without any intent to...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has awarded RM274,375 in damages to lawyer Siti Kasim and her client over unlawful raid at her house and her subsequent wrongful imprisonment in June 2018. Judicial Commissioner Arziah Mohammed Apandi, in her decision, said the police raid on Siti's home on June 21, 2018, was conducted without any intent to...
JOHOR BARU: The High Court here acquitted and discharged an unemployed man over a murder case in Senai five years ago. S. Adinarayanan, 43, walked out a free man after Judge Kan Wen Hin found him not guilty of murdering T. Krishnan, 64, on Thursday (Nov 27). According to the charge sheet, he was accused of causing...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has granted leave to the family of the late Tun Daim Zainuddin to commence a judicial review against the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) order to freeze their bank accounts and assets. Justice Aliza Sulaiman allowed the application on grounds that it had met the necessary threshold for leave to be granted. She...
KOTA KINABALU: Upko secretary general Senator Datuk Wences Anggang has defended the party president Datuk Ewon Benedick’s stand to resign from the Cabinet if the Federal Government decides to appeal the High Court decision affirming Sabah’s constitutional right to 40% revenue return. Anggang said that the Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Minister’s statement was not a threat...
