The Court of Appeal in Putrajaya today reserved their judgment for a later date in the case between Raub Australian Gold Mine (RAGM) and Malaysiakini.

The panel announced that they would deliver their judgment at a yet-to-be-determined date.

This was the decision of the three-member bench after hearing submissions from Malaysiakini's lawyer James Khong and the rebuttal from RAGM's senior counsel Cecil Abraham.

Khong had argued that reportage was part of the defence of qualified privilege, which was included in their plea.

This is especially in view of the end product in this case, that are the articles and videos in question, he said.

Previously, Cecil had told the appellate court that Malaysiakini did not raise the defence of reportage in their plea and only did so later in their submissions.

RAGM is appealing against a May 23 High Court decision which dismissed its defamation claim against Malaysiakini and three other defendants, all of whom were members of the editorial team at the time.

The High Court at that time had dismissed the company's suit on the grounds that it accepted Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd's defence of qualified privilege of responsible journalism as well as reportage.

Justice Rosnani Saub in her decision had said the most important aspect of the qualified privilege defence in Reynolds' case is the element of public interest.

Meanwhile, today's hearing was held before Justice Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim who sat with Justice Mary Lim and High Court judge Suraya Othman.

Apart from Khong, Malaysiakini was also represented by Syahredzan Johan.

It was also previously reported that RAGM had applied for voluntary liquidation after suffering great losses, with the company recording an estimated deficiency of RM292,345,093.