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Tuesday, 25 May 2021 05:23 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
An aerial view of the Kuala Lumpur High Court April 23, 2020. Yesterday, High Court judge Datuk Seri Mohd Firuz Jaffril was reported remarking in court proceedings that court staff should be regarded as frontliners and be given priority to receive Covid-19 vaccination. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 The government has allocated sufficient supplies of Covid-19 vaccines for “all judges” in the country and recognises them to be “frontliners” in the Covid-19 pandemic, Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan said today.
Malaysiakini seeks Federal Court review of its conviction for contempt
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Malaysiakini has applied to the Federal Court to review and set aside its decision to find the online media organisation guilty of contempt of court over five readers’ comments.
The motion was filed last week by lawyer Surendra Ananth.
In its application,
Malaysiakini applied for the contempt conviction to be set aside so that the case could be re-heard before the Federal Court.
“The majority of the Federal Court, in coming to its decision on Feb 19, 2021, dealt with certain issues and/or matters without providing the applicant (
Monday, 05 Apr 2021 12:56 PM MYT
BY EMMANUEL SANTA MARIA CHIN
Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi arrives at the Court of Appeal, Putrajaya on April 5, 2021. Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
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PUTRAJAYA, April 5 Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has exhausted his legal options to consolidate his dozen criminal breach of trust (CBT) charges related to his family’s Yayasan Akalbudi charity into three after the Federal Court dismissed his application today.
The matter today was Zahid’s appeal against the High Court’s dismissal of his application, which was previously rejected at the Court of Appeal.
Federal Court dismisses Zahid’s appeal 05 Apr 2021 / 16:34 H.
PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court today dismissed former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s (
pix) appeal to consolidate his 12 criminal breach of trust (CBT) charges to only three charges in his trial involving funds belonging to Yayasan Alkalbudi.
A three-member bench led by Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Azahar Mohamed in ruling that there was no contravention of section 153 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code said the section was not a mandatory provision.
“We therefore agree on this issue with the Court of Appeal that it is not mandatory for all 12 charges of CBT to be amalgamated or consolidate to only three charges,“ he said when dismissing Ahmad Zahid’s appeal.