High Court rules Tommy Thomas didn’t charge Najib in bad faith
The High Court has ruled that ex-attorney general Tommy Thomas did not charge Najib Tun Razak in bad faith; he only did so upon receiving completed investigation papers. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 28, 2023.
He also said the issue of “targeting the former premier or targeted malice” did not arise as it was Thomas’s duty as the public prosecutor to charge Najib. The judge said to accede to the proposition that Thomas had committed all three torts or causes of action would open the floodgates for questioning of the public prosecutor’s every action.
Judge Ahmad said the public prosecutor and his deputies would then have to appear in court to testify for each case, wasting official time and public funds and seriously undermining the integrity of the institution of the attorney general or public prosecutor altogether. Judge Ahmad said the claim should not have been filed at all before the trials of the four cases were completed.
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