Independents vs Speaker: Federal Court ruling on Wed

comments     Hafiz Yatim     Published     Updated

The Federal Court will decide on Wednesday whether it has jurisdiction to interpret on who could declare the Perak seats vacant, whether it is the speaker or the Election Commission.

This comes after a preliminary objection raised by counsel, Sulaiman Abdullah, representing speaker V Sivakumar, who submitted the Federal Court had no jurisdiction to interpret matters brought up straight from the High Court on a constitutional issue brought by a state, namely Perak.

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