The High Court in Kuala Lumpur today dismissed the judicial review application by Anwar Ibrahim's family challenging the Pardons Board's decision not to grant him clemency for his sodomy conviction.

Justice Nor Bee Ariffin also dismissed the family's and Anwar's applications to refer a question of law to the Federal Court on how the board arrived at its decision.

This comes with the court allowing a preliminary objection made by the Attorney-General’s Chambers, which is appearing for the board.

Lawyers for the family, N Surendran and Latheefa Koya, said the decision was made in chambers.

However, they said, an appeal would be filed against today's decision.

Surendran and Latheefa said the Pardons Board derived its decision by citing the rejection of Anwar’s application, which was made under Rule113 of the Prisons Regulations 2000.

'No such application under Rule 113'

"However, there is no such application made by the family or Anwar under Rule 113 of the Prisons Regulations 2000,” Latheefa said.

So the family and Anwar, Latheefa and Surendran said, are questioning as to how the board arrived at this decision.

Furthermore, they added, the applicants disagreed with the presence of former attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail during the decision made by the Prisons Board last year.

Anwar appeared for himself in today's matter. He, his wife PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and daughters Nurul Izzah and Nurul Nuha, are the applicants.

They named the Pardons Board of the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya, the attorney-general and the government as respondents.