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Court sets Oct 4 to hear Mahfuz's suit against police and Government

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:39 AM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR:,/b> The High Court here has set Oct 4 to hear Pas vice-president Datuk Mahfuz Omar's suit against the police and government for alleged wrongful arrest and detention during the July 9 illegal rally.

Judge Harminder Singh Dhaliwal fixed the date in chambers after meeting with Senior Federal Counsel Iznan Izhak, who represented the defendants, and Mahfuz's lawyer Muhammad Faiz Fadzil.

Mahfuz, who is the Member of Parliament for Pokok Sena, Kedah, filed the suit on Aug 8, naming arresting officer Insp Mohd Zaid Madzizat of the Brickfields Police, the Brickfields police chief, the Inspector-General of Police and the government of Malaysia as the first to fourth defendants.

In his statement of claim, Mahfuz claimed that his detention at KL Sentral at 11.50am on July 9 was wrong, invalid, illegal and mala fide.

He claimed that the scene of the incident (KL Sentral) was not stated as a forbidden area in the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate's Court order issued on July 6. -- BERNAMA

Parties seek out-of-court settlement in Tajudin's suit against news portal

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:36 AM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR:,/b> The parties in the RM200-million suit brought by former Malaysia Airlines executive chairman Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli against The Malaysian Insider news portal are seeking to settle the case out of court, counsel for The Malaysian Insider said today.

Lawyer George Miranda said this after he, Tajudin's counsel Lim Kian Leong and the news portal's executive and journalist had met Judge Harminder Singh Dhaliwal in chambers.

The case had been set for case management today. After the meeting, the judge set Sept 28 for case management.

On Aug 18, Tajudin filed the suit over the news portal's publication of an article on the airline company.

He named The Malaysian Insider Sdn Bhd, its chief executive officer Jahabar Sadiq and journalist Shazwan Mustafa Kamal as defendants.

Tajudin, who helmed the airline from 1994 to 2001, had stated that the portal had published defamatory words in the article on May 31, 2011.

He also claimed that the portal repeated the defamatory words in other articles, despite a letter sent to it to not do so.

He said the Malaysian Insider, when responding to his letter, stated that the words in the article were not defamatory and that they had obtained the information from multiple sources.

Besides general damages of RM200 million, Tajudin is also seeking aggravated damages and interests. -- BERNAMA

Kredit: www.nst.com.my

Isnin, 19 September 2011

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