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Federal Court decision tomorrow on Malaysiakini s contempt case
Modified18 Feb 2021, 1:03 am
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Malaysiakini will know tomorrow the outcome of a contempt of court case against the news portal over a number of comments posted by its readers.
After two postponements due to the movement control order (MCO) which was enforced in Putrajaya, the Federal Court at the Palace of Justice is set to deliver its verdict at 9am.
According to an email from the Chief Registrar’s Office of the Federal Court, journalists are to follow proceedings not from the courtroom but via a live broadcast from the assembly hall at the Palace of Justice.
This story has been updated, together with the headline, to correct some errors.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 8): Former Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) chairman Tan Sri Shahrir Samad has today withdrawn his application to recuse High Court judge Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali from hearing the application he put in to transfer his money laundering case from the Sessions Court to the High Court.
This follows news that Justice Nazlan will be transferring from the High Court s criminal division to the High Court s civil division, effective this March 1.
Shahrir s counsel Datuk Firoz Hussein Ahmad Jamaluddin told
theedgemarkets.com that they are withdrawing the recusal application due to this transfer order, and asked for a case management date to be fixed for his client s application to transfer the case from the Sessions Court to the High Court.
A nine-man bench chaired by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat (
pic) ruled that Rosliza Ibrahim was never a Muslim.
Rosliza succeeded in making her claims on a balance of probabilities that she was never a Muslim since birth, she said.
The court found that based on evidence, Rosliza was an illegitimate child and her mother was never a Muslim, therefore her father’s religion could not be ascribed to her.This was corroborated by the Religious Authorities’ Letters which stated that they were unable to locate any record of a marriage between the plaintiff’s parents.
“The concurrent categorisation by the courts below (the High Court and the Court of Appeal) of the plaintiff’s case as a renunciation case is not correct in fact and in law.
05 Feb 2021 / 16:52 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
PUTRAJAYA: A woman who was born out of wedlock to a Muslim father and a Buddhist mother today won her appeal in the Federal Court to be declared a non-Muslim.
Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, chairing a nine-member bench, delivered the 7-2 majority decision through Zoom in allowing Rosliza Ibrahim’s appeal and granted the declarations sought by her.
She held that Rosliza is not a person professing Islam because there is no proof that she is a Muslim by original faith.
Justice Tengku Maimun said there was also no proof that Rosliza’s mother professed Islam at the time of Rosliza’s birth as she considered herself a Buddhist in her written application for a new identity card in 1995 and in her statutory declaration in 2008.