The coroner's court today decided not to hear oral submissions from the five parties involved in the inquest into the death of DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock.

Coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas told the parties wanting to submit replies to the submissions made that they could do so in writing on Dec 27.

The date was set to give all parties the opportunity to read through the submissions, as the most of them only filed their submissions yesterday.

The much-anticipated verdict into the inquest, which began in the middle of last year, will be delivered on Jan 5.

Speaking to reporters later, the lawyer for Teoh's family, Gobind NONE Singh Deo ( right ), said the Bar Council was the first to file its submission, followed by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

Counsel representing the Selangor state government, Teoh's family and Selangor exco and Teoh's employer Ean Yong Hian Wah filed their submissions yesterday.

Tan Hock Chuan, who is representing the Attorney-General's Chambers, said the coroner made the decision because the submissions were voluminous and reading them out would take too long.

Also present today were members of Teoh's family, including his wife and baby son, who was born after his death.

Many in the public gallery were seen wearing T-shirts that read ‘Justice for Beng Hock', with white daisies pinned on.

Teoh, 30, was found dead on the fifth floor landing of Plaza Masalam in Shah Alam on July 16, 2009, after an overnight interrogation by

NONE MACC officers at its office on the 14 th floor of the same building.

The inquest has been fraught with controversies, with Thai forensic pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand claiming that she had received threats for testifying as an expert witness.

MACC counsel Abdul Razak Musa's examination of Pornthip also gave the commission bad press, with a video of him demonstrating how

Teoh could have strangled himself , prior to falling to his death, being widely circulated on the Internet to this day.

The AG's Chambers was also accused of withholding evidence from other parties after it produced a note , purported to have been the deceased's final testament, at the tail end of the inquest despite having had it since his death.

Teoh's family and the Justice for Beng Hock civil society movement have launched a petition seeking the establishment of a royal commission of inquiry into his death, saying they have lost confidence in the inquest.