KUALA LUMPUR: A lawsuit filed by an NGO and six mothers seeking for overseas-born children to be given citizenship will be heard at the High Court on June 30.
This is following a decision by Justice Akhtar Tahir that dismissed the government s application to strike out the suit.
In his decision, Justice Akhtar ruled that the main lawsuit was not frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of court process.
Lawyer Datuk Dr Gurdial Singh Nijar told reporters that the court found there was no justification by the government in its application to strike out the suit. On the face of it (the lawsuit), there is apparent discrimination. The legal action will proceed and the court has given us a hearing date on June 30, he said here on Thursday.
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court has fixed June 30 to hear an application by Gombak MP Datuk Seri Azmin Ali who wants to strike out a lawsuit filed against him by 10 constituents over alleged deceit and breach of fiduciary duty.
Deputy Registrar Maslinda Selamat set the date after the case was brought up for case management via e-review on Monday (April 26).
On the same day (June 30), the court will also hear an application by the voters who sought to strike out several paragraphs from Azmin s statement of defence.
According to Azmin s lawyer Nizamuddin Hamid, the said paragraphs - paragraph 13 until 20 - were on Azmin s reasons on why he left PKR.
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IN the recent case of Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz v Lembaga Pengampunan Wilayah Persekutuan & Anor (2021) 1 CLJ 94, which was decided in October last year, the plaintiff initiated an action against the first defendant (Lembaga Pengampunan Wilayah Persekutuan) and the second defendant (Anwar Ibrahim) who was given a full pardon by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (YDPA).
The pardon resulted in the commutation of sentence as well as the setting aside of the second defendant’s conviction for an offence under section 377B of the penal code. The second defendant was convicted by the Court of Appeal of the charge and sentenced to an imprisonment term and both the conviction and sentence were upheld by the Federal Court. The second defendant was serving the jail term when he was pardoned by the YDPA. Following the pardon, he was immediately released from jail.