A senior federal counsel told the Federal Court today that it should adopt the decision from the case of R Subashini vs T Saravanan in defining the definition of "parent" in the Federal Constitution to mean singular.

Counsel Arik Sanusi Yeop Johari, who was representing the Education Ministry, further showed the definition of "parent" according to four English dictionaries to mean a single parent, and parents to show plural in the dictionaries.