With some office-bearers of the de-registered Sarawak National Party (Snap) applying for a judicial review on the Registrar of Societies' (ROS) decision to de-register the party, it is expected not only to involve a long legal process to determine the party's ultimate fate but also likely to raise certain immediate implications for the ruling state Barisan Nasional.

The old Snap faction aligned to former president James Wong Kim Min yesterday resolved at a special meeting of some 150 representatives from the party's 62 former divisions throughout Sarawak to by-pass the Home Minister and take the matter straight to court to appeal against the ROS' decision announced earlier this week.

Wong, who was present along with former secretary-general Justine Jinggut and former deputy secretary-general Edmund Stanley Jugol, was given the mandate to pursue all legal avenues to try and revive the party, which was formed 41 years ago, by a group of predominantly Dayak leaders, including the late Stephen Kalong Ningkan,who became Sarawak's post-Independence chief minister.