KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 29 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak attempted an ex parte application to show cause for contempt of court against Malay Mail and Lim Kit Siang today, over an article the news publication wrote citing the DAP MP. However, according to Najib’s lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah,...
Friday, 29 Nov 2019 05:18 PM MYTMalay Mail editor-in-chief, Datuk Wong Sai Wan, and reporter Emmanuel Santa Maria Chin leave the Kuala Lumpur High Court November 29, 2019. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
An ex parte application is a request made to a court where only the party making the request is represented, while the other side is not given any notice. Shafee claimed that the article and Lim were trying to pressure the court into deciding the outcome of the criminal case involving the prime minister.
High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali then said the prosecution successfully proved prima facie against Najib, who is also Pekan MP, on all of his seven charges.
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