Two DAP MPs from Perak have secured a court date for their appeal against a High Court decision disallowing their attempts to secure a court order to stop the redrawing of their respective electoral boundaries.

Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran, who was one of the applicants, said pre-trial proceedings at the Court of Appeal fixed Aug 14 for the hearing.

He said that the court registrar set a date although the written judgment by the High Court in Ipoh was yet to be obtained.

"The registrar called the High Court in Ipoh today and was informed the grounds will be ready today.

"She indicated that this case is given priority as this is a public interest matter," Kulasegaran said when contacted.

On May 5, Justice Che Ruzima Ghazali refused to grant plaintiffs Kulasegaran and Ipoh Timur MP Thomas Su leave to seek an order to halt the Election Commission's (EC) delineation exercise.

The judge ruled that their application was frivolous and that the plaintiffs had no arguable grounds.

Kulasegaran and Su had argued that the EC cannot redraw electoral boundaries while excluding Selangor from the same exercise.

They also questioned whether the EC had adhered to Section 4(a) of the Thirteenth Schedule of the Federal Constitution and whether the notice or proposed recommendations were issued without jurisdiction.

The duo urged the court to rule on whether the proposed recommendations for the new electoral boundaries were constitutional and whether the first local inquiry for the two constituencies, held on Nov 1 last year, was unlawful.