The Bar Council has withdrawn a motion from its annual general assembly to discuss the conduct of veteran lawyer Shafee Abdullah after being served with a court injunction.

"We have been served the injunction, we abide by the term.

"The motion will not be tabled," outgoing Bar Council president Christopher Leong told Malaysiakini moments before the AGM commenced in Kuala Lumpur today.

Senior lawyer Tommy Thomas ( right ), seconded by former Court of Appeal judge VC George, had filed a motion to discuss Shafee's conduct in Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's Sodomy II case.

Shafee was engaged by the Attorney-General's Chambers as prosecutor in the case and he successfully secured the conviction of the opposition leader.

Following this, the veteran lawyer went on a series of roadshows, during which he even revealed restricted, in-camera evidence about the case.

Among the claims made by Shafee included lewd details such as Anwar allegedly pinching complainant Mohd Saiful BukharI Azlan's nipple.

Shafee's legal representatives yesterday successfully obtained an ex-parte injunction to prevent the Bar Council from discussing his conduct.

The injunction had named Leong, Thomas and George.

Thomas, when met before the AGM, also confirmed receiving the injunction.

He had marched into the meeting hall with the injunction at the top of his bundle of documents held to his chest but refused to comment further.

The AGM today will also vote in the new leadership of the Bar Council, with the tenure of Leong and the other council officials coming to an end.

The meeting is expected to be a heated one as as a group of lawyers dubbed G100 have began to assert themselves against the Bar's normally held stance.

The G100 tabled a motion demanding that the Bar Council withdraws its resolution made last year calling for an end to the Sedition Act.

However, Ambiga Sreenevasan, backed by Ragunath Kesavan, both of them former Bar Council chairpersons, are proposing another motion to condemn Putrajaya's intensified use of the Sedition Act.

The G100 lawyers have also proposed two other motions, namely for Leong to withdraw his statement that Anwar's jailing was a "persecution" and for transparency in the Bar Council election.