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KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 30): The High Court today dismissed an application by the Umno Pekan division led by former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak to strike out a forfeiture notice after it had failed to name its office bearers, but allowed the prosecution to amend the notice.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 28): The High Court here today had dismissed the prosecution's application to overturn the Sessions Court's earlier decision to transfer former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's (pictured) trial involving seven corruption charges linked to Malaysia's foreign visa system to the Shah Alam Sessions Court.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 28): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak complained yesterday, through his lawyer, that he had to seek treatment for a sore back after sitting on the wooden bench in the accused dock during his SRC International Sdn Bhd hearings.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 27): Datuk Seri Najib Razak's stepson, Riza Shahriz Abdul Aziz (pictured), has applied to transfer his trial entailing five charges of money laundering involving US$248.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 22): National Feedlot Corp Sdn Bhd (NFC), National Meatworks Sdn Bhd along with its chairman Datuk Mohd Salleh Ismail and seven others have today indicated that they want to amend their defence and also file a counterclaim against the Malaysian government for its suit filed against them over a RM250 million loan.

PUTRAJAYA (Aug 20): The government has submitted that the High Court was right in excluding it as a defendant in a civil suit over the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu (pictured), although two policemen were found guilty of the crime in a criminal case earlier.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 15): Semantan Estates (1952) Sdn Bhd is appealing against the High Court's decision to allow Kenari Maluri Sdn Bhd, a company claiming to represent the majority of Semantan Estate's shareholders, to intervene in the former's judicial review application.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 10): Five witnesses in the ongoing trial of Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) on the alleged misappropriation of RM42 million from SRC international Sdn Bhd have passed away, the investigating officer of the case told the High Court yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 9): High Court judge Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali has reminded Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) that his social media posts on the ongoing SRC International Sdn Bhd trial is treading the line of contempt of court.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 30): Attorney General Tommy Thomas said today the UK High Court emphasised that it remains ready to proceed with 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) and Minister of Finance Inc's (MOF Inc) challenge against the consent award to International Petroleum Investment Co (IPIC) after having regard to the circumstances.