PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has set Nov 28 to deliver its verdict on an appeal by the Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais) and the state government to reinstate a 35-year-old woman's conversion to Islam.
KLANG: The Selangor State Legislative Assembly accepts and respects the Federal Court’s decision that it cannot empower the state’s Syariah courts to hear judicial reviews in regards to decisions made by the state’s religious authorities.
PUTRAJAYA: The Selangor Syariah Court has no power to hear judicial review cases relating to the decision by its state religious authorities, declares the Federal 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.
Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 02:02 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Rosliza s lawyer Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram argued that both the High Court and Court of Appeal had wrongly categorised her case as being a Muslim seeking to stop being a Muslim. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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PUTRAJAYA, Dec 16 A Malaysian woman who was born to a Muslim man and a Buddhist woman was never a Muslim to begin with as the parents were not married and as she was an illegitimate child, and the declaration of her religious status as a non-Muslim should be made by the civil courts instead of the Shariah courts, the Federal Court heard today.