The Malaysian Bar in its memorandum of appeal, contends that the High Court judge made an error in dismissing its application for leave to initiate a judicial review to challenge the Federal Territories Pardons Board’s decision to reduce Najib Abdul Razak’s prison sentence and fine in the SRC International Sdn Bhd case.

In the memorandum of appeal filed at the Court of Appeal through legal firm Tetuan Amir & Rajpal Ghai on Jan 23, this year, the Bar argued that Ahmad Kamal Md Shahid (now a Court of Appeal judge) had erred when he rejected its leave application on the sole reason that it was not justiciable.

It said there were several...