By Media Selangor Team SHAH ALAM, June 19 — Women's rights group Sisters in Islam (SIS) has won a more than decade-long battle against a fatwa issued by Selangor declaring the group "sesat" or deviant. The Federal Court, in a landmark decision today, ruled that the edict issued by the state's...

By Media Selangor Team SHAH ALAM, June 19 — Women’s rights group Sisters in Islam (SIS) has won a battle of over a decade against a fatwa issued by Selangor declaring the group “sesat” or deviant. The Federal Court, in a landmark decision today, ruled that the edict issued by the state...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — The prosecution contends that the sedition case involving former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin does not involve complex or extraordinary questions of law.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 — The application by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to refer several constitutional questions to the Federal Court, under Article 128(2) of the Federal Constitution and Section 84 of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964, is not intended to create absolute immunity for any individual.

PUTRAJAYA, May 27 — The Federal Court has dismissed Mohd Hatta Sanuri’s application for leave to appeal in his bid to reinstate a lawsuit over the cancellation of the Kuala Lumpur–Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project.

PUTRAJAYA, May 27 — The Federal Court has dismissed Mohd Hatta Sanuri’s application for leave to appeal in his bid to reinstate a lawsuit over the cancellation of the Kuala Lumpur–Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 — His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, today granted an audience and presented instruments of appointment to three judges at Istana Negara here.

PUTRAJAYA, May 15 — The Federal Court has dismissed the appeal by Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH) chief executive officer Datuk Nasiruddin Mohd Ali and his wife Azura Md Yusof, which sought to have their habeas corpus application remitted to the High Court for a full hearing on its merits.

PUTRAJAYA, May 14 — The Federal Court has reserved its verdict on the final appeals by six men convicted and sentenced to death for the 2015 murder of Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais, whose body was found in a concrete-filled drum.

PUTRAJAYA, April 28 — The Federal Court here today granted leave to the Attorney-General (AG) to appeal against the existence of an additional document in the case involving former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

PUTRAJAYA, April 25 — The Federal Court has vacated the hearing of the prosecution’s review application challenging the top court’s earlier 2-1 majority ruling that it (the Federal Court) has the jurisdiction to review death sentences that had been imposed on four prisoners whose sentences have been commuted by the Pardons Boards.

PUTRAJAYA, April 23 — The Federal Court was informed today that there is evidence showing former pathologist Colonel Dr R.

PUTRAJAYA, April 15 — The Federal Court has freed a former escalator machine operator on a charge of trafficking nearly 10kg of drugs found in a car in 2019.

PUTRAJAYA, March 24 — The Federal Court here today dismissed a preliminary objection (PO) by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak against the Attorney General’s application to obtain leave to appeal concerning the existence of an additional document in the case involving the former prime minister.

PUTRAJAYA, March 14 — The Federal Court has reinstated the death penalty for a former lorry driver convicted of murdering his wife and seven-month-old daughter in 2016.

PUTRAJAYA, March 13 — The Federal Court was told that there was no evidence linking former pathologist Col Dr R.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 27 — A businessman from Sarawak won his appeal at the Federal Court to set aside a tour agent’s counterclaim against him, which sought to recover gambling debts.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 18 — The Federal Court was told today that the conviction and the death sentence imposed on six former National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) students for the murder of Royal Malaysian Navy cadet officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain is unsafe and should be set aside.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26 — An Indonesian woman has applied for leave from the Federal Court to appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision which dismissed her appeal seeking a court declaration that her second son is a Malaysian citizen.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 28 — Celebrity chef Redzuawan Ismail, popularly known as Chef Wan, has withdrawn his application for leave to appeal a decision requiring him to pay RM150,000 in damages to his former son-in-law Gavin Edward O’Luanaigh over defamatory posts on social media.