Case management of ex-AG Apandi’s defamation suit against Kit Siang on July 21
Wednesday, 10 Jun 2020 03:07 PM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 — The High Court here has set a new date for case management of former Attorney General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali’s RM10 million suit against DAP Advisor Lim Kit Siang for allegedly defaming him in an article on the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal. “We received a letter from Deputy Registrar Farah Shuhada Ramli dated June 2, stated that today’s case management was vacated to July 21 before judge Datuk Azimah Omar through e-review,” he said.
On July 5, 2019, Mohamed Apandi sued Lim and stated in his statement of claim that on May 6, 2019, Lim had written and caused to be published an article entitled ‘Dangerous fallacy to think Malaysia’s on the road to integrity’ inHe claimed that the alleged libellous words in the article meant that he was involved in crime and had abetted in the 1MDB financial scandal, was a person with no morals and integrity, was unethical and had abused his power when he was the AG.
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