Insights & developments
Legal commentary, firm publications and selected developments from the courts.
Lawyer Sankara N Nair (above) has urged Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and her husband PKR president Anwar Ibrahim to push for a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on the judiciary. This comes after Court of Appeal judge Hamid Sultan Abu Backer alleged that members of the judiciary had conspired with nominees of politicians […]
Read insightPETALING JAYA: Lawyers for DAP deputy secretary-general Teresa Kok today followed up on her apology demand from a Selangor PAS Youth leader with a defamation suit filed on her behalf at the High Court. In her writ of summons against Selangor PAS Youth chief Syarhan Humaizi Halim, Kok, who is also the primary industries minister, […]
Read insightPAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has agreed to settle his defamation suit against Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown out of court. (Bernama pic) PETALING JAYA: An out-of-court settlement between Abdul Hadi Awang and Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown will not change public perception about PAS leaders, a lawyer said today. SN Nair said the allegations […]
Read insightMinister of Primary Industries Teresa Kok has demanded an apology and RM30 million in damages from Selangor PAS youth chief over a defamatory article which alleged that she was anti-Islam. Kok, in her letter of demand dated Jan 23, through a legal firm SN Nair & Partners, claimed that Syarhan Humaizi Halim had written and published […]
Read insightSankara Nair says a civil action suit can be taken against Najib Razak and a former minister for causing huge losses to the Malaysian Rubber Board. KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) has taken the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to task after the government retirement fund said it had done nothing wrong in its […]
Read insightPrimary Industries Minister Teresa Kok and LGM chairman Sankara Nair at a press conference today. Photo by Shahrin Yahya A report has been lodged to the MACC on Nov 27, 2018, “for breach of established LGM procedures” over the five-facility project which was terminated in 2018, said Kok. Photo by Shahrin Yahya For the 2010 land sale, […]
Read insightMalaysian Rubber Board chairman Sankara N. Nair speaks to reporters during a press conference at the Ministry of Primary Industries January 3, 2019. ― Picture by Miera Zulyana KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 ― The previous Barisan Nasional (BN) administration had short-changed and forced the Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) to sell 2,800 acres of its […]
Read insightAzwanddin Hamzah speaking to a gathering of about 1,000 people in Klang on Christmas Day. PETALING JAYA: Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok is demanding an apology and RM30 million in damages from a Malay right-wing leader and his group over a speech he made at a gathering in Klang yesterday, accusing her of having a […]
Read insightAlex Johnson and Luna Almaz, the couple who confessed to having threesomes with Ivana Smit hosted the young model the day her body was found on a balcony. PETALING JAYA: The lawyer representing the family of Ivana Smit, who died last year, has accused an American-Kazakh couple who last saw the Dutch model alive of […]
Read insightSankara Nair. PETALING JAYA: Peguam mewakili keluarga Ivana Smit, model berketurunan Belanda yang mati dalam keadaan mencurigakan, menggesa mahkamah mengisytiharkan kematian model itu mempunyai unsur jenayah bagi membolehkan polis mendapatkan waran tangkap terhadap pasangan, Alex Johnson dari Amerika Syarikat dan Luna Almaz dari Kazakhstan. Sankara Nair berkata terdapat sebab-sebab munasabah untuk mengekstradisi Alex-Luna, pasangan seks […]
Read insight© ANP [Translation] Alex and Luna Johnson may have seen Ivana Smit die. This is argued by the lawyer of the Smit family, Sankara Nair, today in his written closing pleadings before the court in Malaysia. If the American couple is convicted, it will be ten years in prison. Lawyer Sankara Nair goes into the testimony of […]
Read insightA+ A– The mediation centre of the KL Sessions Court today fixed Jan 10 for another round of discussions between the Energy, Green Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin and Sungai Besar Umno Division chief Jamal Mohd Yunos of the “Red Shirts” notoriety. Yeo had sued Jamal for defamation in June […]
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