It has been a year since the Court of Appeal overturned a High Court decision in favour of Lim Guan Eng in his defamation suit against New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd, Utusan Malaysia and Perkasa - but the appellate court's written grounds of judgment are yet to be released.

This was revealed by the Penang chief minister's lawyer, Americk Sidhu, during case management today at the Federal Court registry.

“We are still waiting for the written grounds of judgment since the decision was made in December 2016,” Americk said, adding the next case management on Lim’s appeal bid has been fixed for March 12...