Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's application to strike out former law minister Zaid Ibrahim's bid to get the details of the four AmBank Islamic accounts owned by Najib in relation to 1MDB has been fixed for hearing on Nov 23.

Judicial Commissioner Rohani Ismail set the date in chambers during a case management today.  

Najib was represented by lawyer Nor Hazira Abu Hayan.

In September, the court allowed Najib's application to intervene in Zaid's lawsuit seeking the disclosure of his bank accounts.

Following that, Najib in his striking-out application said Zaid has no right to get details of the four accounts, citing Section 145 of the Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 (Ifsa).

Besides Section 145, Najib also cited in his affidavit that the Banker Book (Evidence) Act 1949 (BBEA) does not grant the right of discovery to any party.

The prime minister also claimed that the discovery bid was frivolous, vexatious and without reasonable cause of action and that an application to strike out a separate lawsuit from Zaid to him had also been made.

Zaid had originally filed a representative action suit in August last year against Najib, his stepson Riza Aziz, 1MDB and the government for breach of fiduciary duty.

The suit requested that the US$731 million deposited into Najib’s bank accounts be returned to the government, along with the RM42 million received from 1MDB subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd.

On Sept 13 last year, Zaid applied for a court order in an ex-parte application to force AmBank to furnish information related to five bank accounts, under the BBEA.

However, AmBank replied that it only had records of four of the five accounts.