KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 — The Federal Court has set June 25 to hear the appeal of the Association of Family Support and Welfare Selangor and Kuala Lumpur (Family Frontiers) and six other women against the Court of Appeal's decision.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 22 — The Federal Court has fixed February 20 to hear the applications by two non-governmental organisations to seek leave to appeal against a Court of Appeal decision to declare using Mandarin and Tamil as the instruction medium in vernacular schools as constitutional.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 17 — The Federal Court’s three-member panel today rejected an Indonesian man’s review application to commute his death sentence for killing his three young daughters, to life imprisonment.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 16 — The Federal Court three-member bench today heard the appeal brought by a 37-year-old woman who claimed that her conversion to Islam in 1991 at the age of four by reason of her mother’s conversion to Islam was a nullity from the start.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 11 — A former palm oil estate worker, who beheaded his co-worker for the purpose of getting his skull as part of a ritual to secure a winning lottery ticket, had his death sentence commuted to 35 years in jail.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 9 — An unemployed man who beheaded his father and chopped off the victim’s legs and hands escaped the gallows after the Federal Court substituted the death sentence today to 35 years imprisonment.

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 4 — The Federal Court upheld the death sentence today, imposed on a former security guard for the murder of two co-workers whom he slashed with a parang when they were asleep seven years ago.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 — Two organisations are seeking leave to appeal to the Federal Court against the Court of Appeal's dismissal of their application to declare the establishment and existence of vernacular schools and the use of Mandarin and Tamil in such schools as unconstitutional.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 18 — A former deliveryman failed in his appeal in the Federal Court today to have his sentence of 10 strokes of the cane for two counts of drug possession to be served concurrently.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 6 — The Federal Court has fixed February 21 next year to hear a 22-year-old man’s appeal against his conviction for the murder of 23 people in a fire at the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah tahfiz centre in 2017.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 6 — A 76-year-old former security guard was among nine individuals whose death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment of 30 years by the Federal Court today.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 29 — A former lorry driver was sentenced to 35 years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane by the Federal Court today for the murder of his girlfriend seven years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 28 — The Court of Appeal here today dismissed the appeal by the Malaysian Bar to refer constitutional questions concerning the validity of an emergency proclamation made in 2020 to the Federal Court.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 — The Prisons Department has completed filing all 1,020 review applications under the Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Act 2023 (Act 847).

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 14 — The Federal Court today commuted the death sentence and natural life imprisonment of eleven individuals, who were convicted of drug trafficking under the Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Act.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 14 — The Federal Court is expected to hear the first batch of review applications today brought by death row prisoners under the Revision of Sentence of Death and Imprisonment for Natural Life (Temporary Jurisdiction of the Federal Court) Act 2023 (Act 847).

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 1 — The Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) has failed in its application to review the Federal Court’s previous decision in refusing to give the regulatory body leave to pursue its appeal to reinstate RM10 million fines imposed on the Malaysian Airlines (MAS) and AirAsia Berhad for breaching a market-sharing prohibition.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 26 — The Federal Court today acquitted and discharged three friends, including one woman, on the charge of murdering a man whose body has yet to be found.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 17 — The Federal Court today affirmed that a bully victim who suffered permanent ear damage after being bullied at a secondary school in Terengganu eight years ago will be awarded over RM600,000.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 12 — The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has obtained leave from the Federal Court to appeal against a Court of Appeal’s decision that allows a residents' association (RA) to impose a condition for non-paying members to operate the boom gates themselves without the assistance of security guards.