Najib withdraws appeal over legal challenge to attend Parliament
PUTRAJAYA: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has withdrawn his appeal to the Court of Appeal for leave to commence a legal challenge over the Prisons Department’s refusal to allow his request to attend Parliament sittings. The notice of discontinuance of the appeal was filed last July 12 by Messrs Shafee & Co, the […]
PM urged to order AG to withdraw govt appeal
Automatic entitlement to Malaysian citizenship KUCHING: Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) wants Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob to urgently intervene by instructing Attorney General Tan Sri Idrus Harun to withdraw the government’s appeal against the High Court’s decision allowing children born abroad to Malaysian mothers with foreign spouses to be automatically entitled to […]
Sarawak, Sabah MPs urge government to withdraw appeal
KUCHING: Sarawak and Sabah federal and state lawmakers have urged the federal government to withdraw its appeal against a High Court decision that allows Christians to use the word “Allah”. They said the withdrawal will not only end the 35-year-old polemic and the “pain” felt by Sarawakians, Sabahans and the Orang Asli, but it […]
‘A positive move’
KUCHING: The decision by Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) to withdraw its appeal against the Kuching High Court’s ruling that Sarawak is entitled to collect sales tax on petroleum products is a positive move, commented Assistant Minister of Law, State-Federal Relations and Project Monitoring Datuk Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali. “It is an indication of a […]
Petronas withdraws appeal
PUTRAJAYA: Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) today withdrew its appeal against the Kuching High Court’s ruling that Sarawak is entitled to collect sales tax on petroleum products. The Sarawak government, at the same time, also withdrew its cross-appeal over jurisdiction issue of the High Court on the state sales tax (SST). A three-man bench of the […]
Karpal Sing’s daughter withdraws appeal
PUTRAJAYA: Lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo, who is the daughter of the late Karpal Singh, has withdrawn her appeal against a High Court ruling in dismissing her suit against a former Chief Justice over alleged interference by the judiciary in the outcome of her father’s sedition case and the religious conversion of three Hindu children. She filed the notice of discontinuance of […]
