The Federal Court will allow the outcome of the highly-charged 'bin Abdullah' case to be decided by three of the five judges that heard the National Registration Department's appeal in February.

Chief justice Ricard Malanjum, who led the seven-member apex court bench today, said that the three remaining judges who heard the appeal can still deliver a judgement under Section 78(1) of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964.

As such, he said, there is no need to hear the case again before another panel...