January 3, 2013
A-G's Chambers Application to Expunge Six Questions In Lawyer Rosli's Witness Statement Allowed
by Hafiz Yatim@http://www.malaysiakini.com
The Kuala Lumpur High Court has today allowed a Attorney-General's (A-G) Chambers' duplicate to obliterate 6 questions in counsel Rosli Dahlan's witness matter over his RM50 million defamation explain opposite a Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA), Utusan Malaysia and a government.
This follows Justice Hue Siew Kheng's statute that a allegations made in a witness matter were "riddled with heresay" as well as not pleaded in a matter of claim.
She had additionally discharged Rosli's conflict to Senior Federal Counsel Azizan Md Arshad's confirmation in ancillary a duplicate as a justice ruled a confirmation usually raised issues of points of law as well as that it was not required for officers of a ACA or a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to affirm it.
"The justice manners that a accusations were made upon a third party with no event for 
the chairman to urge himself or herself. Hence, a justice additionally orders that costs upon costs (ie a costs will be determined later) during a end of a trial," Justice Hue (right) said.
According to Azizan, a justice cited that it was bound by a box of toll concessionaire Metramac Corporation Sdn Bhd in permitting a application.
The Metramac case saw former decider Justice Gopal Sri Ram making statemen! ts upon a using of a Finance Ministry, as well as this was expunged after by a Federal Court after it ruled that irrelevant parties should not be cited.
The questions concern what is known as a 'Copgate affair' as well as it cover questions eight, 114, 115, 116, 117 as well as 118 out of a total of 127 questions that Rosli had put up.
On November twenty-eight it was reported that a A-G's Chambers, representing a MACC's predecessor a Anti-Corruption Agency as well as a government, had opposite Rosli's duplicate to read out his witness matter as well as additionally wanted expunged certain portions of it related to Copgate as well as other matters.
However, a irony in a A-G's Chambers duplicate was that Azizan had cited a expunged questions as well as answers in his confirmation in support of a application.
The conference will begin upon Jan 25, with Rosli expected to take a stand. Rosli was charged with not complying with a agency's procedures in dogmatic his assets.However, a KL Sessions Court had acquitted Rosli but job for his defence. The prosecution had after cold a appeal opposite a acquittal progressing this year.
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