Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat should not have been part of the Federal Court bench that heard Najib Abdul Razak’s SRC International conviction appeal last year, the former prime minister’s lead defence counsel contended.

Muhammad Shafee Abdullah told the five-person Federal Court bench - chaired by Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Abdul Rahman Sebli - that Tengku Maimun’s husband Zamani Ibrahim had uploaded a Facebook (FB) posting in 2018, immediately after the 14th general election (GE14)...