The Kuala Lumpur High Court committed a basic error of law when considering irrelevant analysis, leading to Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh’s defamation suit against former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan being dismissed last year, the Court of Appeal heard today.

Yeoh’s counsel Razlan Hadri Zulkifli listed several analyses made by the court which he deemed irrelevant - including one where the judge said Yeoh had failed to produce documentary evidence to prove Musa’s statement referred to her...