Lawyer quarantined, so Undi18 legal bid hearing postponed
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A member of the legal team acting for Young Voters Association (Undi18) was quarantined due to close contact with a Covid-19 positive patient.
As a result, the Kuala Lumpur High Court postponed to May 24 today’s initially scheduled hearing of the association’s legal challenge over the delay in implementing the lowering of voting age.
Undi18’s counsel Lim Wei Jiet told
Malaysiakini today that the legal team had earlier written to the court informing about the quarantine involving one of their lawyers.
He said they had proposed to the court for the hearing.
Published on: Tuesday, May 04, 2021
By: Bernama
Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh speaks to reporters at the Kuala Lumpur High Court. (Malay Mail)
Kuala Lumpur: The High Court struck out a defamation lawsuit by former deputy women, family and community development minister Hannah Yeoh against former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan on technical reasons.
The lawsuit was over the remarks Musa, as the defendant, made during a speech at a forum held Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) on Jan 30, 2020.
Lawyer Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz, representing Musa, when contacted, said that Judge Datuk Rozana Ali Yusoff struck out the lawsuit after finding the plaintiff (Yeoh) had failed to comply with the court’s orders regarding the filing of certain pre-trial documents.
Monday, 03 May 2021 02:33 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh speaks to reporters at the Kuala Lumpur High Court April 27, 2021. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 DAP’s Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh will be filing a fresh defamation suit against former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan over his remarks in a January 2020 forum, after the defamation suit she had already filed was struck out over technical matters.
Earlier today in a case management, High Court judge Rozana Ali Yusoff had struck out the lawsuit due to technicalities involving the filing of certain pre-trial documents and with no order as to costs, but with Yeoh given the liberty to refile the defamation lawsuit.
03 May 2021 / 20:11 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
KUALA
LUMPUR: The High Court today struck out a defamation lawsuit by former deputy women, family and community development minister Hannah Yeoh against former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan on technical reasons.
The lawsuit was over the remarks Musa, as the defendant, made during a speech at a forum held Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) on Jan 30, 2020.
Lawyer Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz, representing Musa, when contacted, said that Judge Datuk Rozana Ali Yusoff struck out the lawsuit after finding the plaintiff (Yeoh) had failed to comply with the court’s orders regarding the filing of certain pre-trial documents.