Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak as well as Rosmah Mansor need not testify in a sodomy trial after a Kuala Lumpur High Court currently authorised their applications to set in reserve a subpoenas issued for them to take a declare stand.
Najib as well as Rosmah's lawyers had claimed which they were not applicable as well as element witnesses for Anwar's defence.
Their applications were supported by a prosecution.
Lead counterclaim warn Karpal Singh, however, had argued which Najib could tell a complainant Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan's state of mind when they met - two days prior to a alleged sodomy situation during a afterwards deputy premier's Taman Duta home in Jun 2008.
After probity Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah delivered his decision, a justice proceeded with a hearing of a Anwar Ibrahim's trial.
Dutch spinal column specialist Dr Thomas Hoogland who had achieved operation upon Anwar's behind in 2004 was! called to take a declare stand.
LIVE REPORTS
8.50am: Lawyers for Najib, Rosmah arrive: Ghazi Ishak, Hisyam Teh Poh Teik, Salehuddin Saidin as well as M Athimulan.
The prosecuting team have been additionally in court.
A white mechanism shade has been set up.
8.55am: Queen's warn Mark Trowell walks in. He is an spectator from a Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Among a diplomatic corp benefaction currently have been officials from a US as well as German embassies.
9am: Saiful's counsel Zamri Idrus wa! lks in.< br>
9.05am: Anwar arrives with PKR boss Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as well as a number of supporters. Also benefaction is his counsel Param Cumaraswamy.
9.09am: Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar walks in.
9.37am: Court starts with Justice Zabidin presiding.
He starts to broach a decision.
After hearing as well as ! reading a affidavits, a justice agrees to allowNajib as well as Rosmah's application.
9.41am: Dr Thomas Hoogland takes a stand. He is an orthapaedic surgeon, elderly 66. He lives in Munich, Germany.
N Sankara is questioning.
"I am here to give justification as Mr Anwar's doctor," Hoogland says.
9.44am: Hoogland states his credentials, his academic gift as well as which he has a Phd from a Birmingham University.
9.46am: The alloy says he has achieved 14,000 spinal column surgeries.
He has created five books upon spinal column surgery. He is a member of a German Society of Orthapaedics as well as his categorical interests is orthoscopic surgery.
10.04am: Hoogland explains a lumbar part of a spinal column as well as a functions.
He explains which a slipped front is agonizing pang to a back. It can means a lot of problems, particularly when standing.
10.08am: Hoog land uses mechanism images put up upon a white shade to explain from a declare stand.
He explains which a stenosis is a squeezing of a waterway in a spine.
10.17am: Hoogland (left) says he met Anwar in April, 2001, whilst he was in ! prison u nderneath military surveillance.
He saw him again in Sep 2004 after Anwar was released.
"Anwar arrived during a Alpha Clinic in Munich, Germany. It was transparent as well as decided afterwards which he bear surgery."
"He had operation with internal anaesthesia."
10.19am: The declare says he prepared his inform upon a Anwar operation as well as gave Anwar a duplicate of a inform upon a politician's request.
10.21am: He says Anwar has lumbar sclerosis, which affects a patients leg as well as hand.
"In particular, a left leg, following an aged neck problem."
He pronounced when he met Anwar upon Sept 4, 2004, Anwar had complained afterwards of being assaulted whilst in military control 6 years earlier.
10.24a m: The declare says which a longer a haughtiness is irritated, a some-more expected it would outcome in subsequent detriment of function.
10.30am: Anwar has problems bending brazen as well as which boundary a mobility of his spine.
10.36am: He says Anwar was in a sanatorium for 3 weeks, from Sept 6 until Sept 27, 2004.
"There was no complication."
10.43am: Anwar has, however, pang upon a left side.
10.43am: Hoogland is asked either a complaint would recur, to which he replies a regularity rate is 5 to twenty percent.
"As to sclerosis, it is fifteen percent."
10.47am: Hoogland says lapse of a skeleton is not a healthy process, though it is utterly normal.
10.50am: Hoogland's healing inform is noted as evidence. Hoogland explains a operation achieved upon Anwar upon Sept 6, 2004.
10.55am: Johor PKR arch Chua Jui Meng walks in to a courtroom.
10.56am: Hoogland's operation inform is noted as evidence.
11am: Hoogland says Anwar's fourth as well as fifth lumbar front has healed, unlike ! prior to in 2001.
11.02am: Sankara asks for a reduced break, to which a decider allows.
11.45am: Court resumes.
11.46am: Machang MP as well as PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail enters a courtroom.
Hoogland says 3 months after a surgery, Anwar went again to his Munich clinic in February 2005.
The declare says upon Feb 7 which year, he did an examination as well as it indicated which Anwar one after another to suffer from behind pang every right away as well as then.
11.50am: He says there was poignant alleviation in Anwar's condition prior to a surgery, though there was not much shift after he was liberated from a sanatorium upon Sept 24, 2004.
"The behind flesh is important to control a behind movement."
11.54am: Hoogland says he has treated many Muslim patients from Middle Eastern countries, as well as praying is regularly an issue.
"I advised Anwar which when performing prayer, to do it delicately as well as slowly.
"You can hook brazen quickly though when you go back, do it very solemnly (moving behind upright as well as standing)."
11.58am! : Hoogland says he advised Anwar to climb up solemnly as it could means serious pang as well as repairs to a disc.
"When you pierce too quick, it would outcome in some-more rubbing off as well as outcome in some-more athritis.
"Anwar has serious athritis."
12.01pm: Hoogland says he final legalised Anwar upon Sept 8, 2011, as well as he found which a politician pang from both athritis as well as stenosis.
12.03pm: The spina! l column alloy says which Anwar has reduction in a mobility of his back, as well as experienced insensibility upon a left side as well as a single of his legs.
12.05pm: There was poignant pang upon a left side as well as left leg.
"After operation in 2004, a true recreation test was negative, however right away it is positive."
"Tests which I did, there is justification of compression upon a left side. Reflexes were normal."
The declare says Anwar has debility upon his left foot. There is debility in both strength as well as sensation.
12.10pm: He says there is a little reduction to Anwar's behind movem! ent as i t is confined to 10 degrees.
"We can hook 90 degrees - no problem, though when bending fifteen degrees or 10 degrees, he will have a pain."
12.16pm: Hoogland testifies which Anwar has poignant stenosis in a neck.
12.20pm: He additionally says there is a serious athritis as well as stenosis upon a neck where it will have a curve.
12.24pm: Sankara asks either a chairman can have severe moving wake up using a pelvic.
Hoogland: As soon as you go fluctuating a painless thing as well as if you force a motion, there will be pang as sure motions have been blocked.
12.27pm: Hoogland shows Anwar's MRI formula taken in Sep 2011.
He points out a area where a fourth as well as fifth vertebral column is enlarged.
The declare additionally shows pelvis as well as a left side have been somewhat larger than right.
"It would see similar changes when you reached a age of 60 to 63 as well as outcome in reduction of motion.
"There is astringency of athritis during lumbar 5 level."
12.36pm: He says there was in in between a joints in a spinal column L4 as well as L5.
12.38pm: He show a athritis aggressive Anwar's lumbar 4 as well as 5. Referring to a MRI scans, Hoogl! and show s there have been bone spurs upon both lumbar 4 as well as 5.
12.44pm: Hoogland says there have been signs of arthiritis upon a fourth as well as fifth lumbar resulting in pain.
12.52pm: The spinal waterway in C5 as well as C6 is narrowing.
His diagnosis, there is lapse of spinal column during assorted levels, prejudiced function detriment of lumbar 4 as well as 5, haughtiness base depletion in L (lumbar) 4 as well as 5.
"There is stenosis in C5 as well as C6. His categorical complaint is behind pain."
Hoogland says physiotheraphy was suggested.
12.55pm: Sankara asks for a mangle as well as wants a duplicate of Saiful's in-camera testimony.
12.56pm: Judge Zabidin agrees as well as says a justice will resume during 2.30pm.
2.37pm: Parties return to court.
2.50pm: Court resumes.
2.52pm: Hoogland diagnoses Anwar's condition as multi-segmental lapse of lumbar spine.
He explains it is not a whole spine, though towards lumbar 4 as well as 5, where there is a little liquid.
The declare says there is debility in a feet as well as insensibility to a left as well as it can be attributed to a L5 (lumbar) bone root.
The MRI indicate finished this year had progressing been tendered as evidence.
2.57pm: Hoogland explains which Anwar cannot do straight-leg raising tests properly as a outcome of his condition.
2.58pm: Witness says operation has led to a lot of improvement, though a mildew routine has one after another since a 2004 operation.
Sankara: He still feels pang since 2004?
Hoodland: We ha! ve achie ved utterly a lot of improvement, though a limitations is limited as there is arthritis, as it has solemnly worsened his back.
3.01pm: After operation in 2004, there wa! s interm ittent behind pain.
3.03pm: Hoogland says after a operation, Anwar was left with arthritis. Between 2004 as well as 2008, a little some-more worsening has occurred.
"The many increased complaint could have been in 2004 to 2008. We have been traffic with 3 problems: haughtiness damage, stenosis causing a lot of reduction in his back, as well as a repairs to a corner has caused a on-going problem."
Sankara: As well as arthritis?
Hoogland: Yes.
Sankara: Would he means to kneel but pain?
Hoogland: He needs to pierce solemnly to forestall pain. As stated earlier, he has problems to hook 10 to fifteen degrees.
3.09pm: Sankara asks subsequent move to be in camera.
3.10pm: Public art studio is empty as decider asks those not related to leave.
He pronounced since there is no objection, as well as orders move to be in camera.
Wan Azizah, however, chooses to wait outward instead of remaining to hear a record in camera.
3.23pm: In camera move finishes as well as public is authorised behind in and. The move for a day has ended. Trial to go on tomorrow during 8.30am.
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