PUTRAJAYA: No one in Malaysia’s legal history has ever applied for a chief justice to recuse himself from hearing a case – until today.
The Malaysian Bar and two government critics today applied to disqualify Chief Justice Raus Sharif from hearing their leave applications in their case against the attorney-general’s failure to prosecute Prime Minister Najib Razak over the RM2.6 billion donation.
However, the three-man bench of the Federal Court, chaired by Raus himself, dismissed the application, saying there was no merit to the case.
“However, rest assured that any decision will be made with two others based on facts and law,” he told lawyers for the applicants.
Others on the bench were justices Ahmad Maarop and Azahar Mohamed. Read more