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KUALA LUMPUR (June 17): The High Court here has granted leave to 18 Malaysian youths to challenge the government's action in delaying the implementation of Undi18, a move to lower the voting age to 18 and to enable automatic voter registration (AVR).

KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): The Inland Revenue Board today denied at the High Court here that there was any malice on its part in filing a bankruptcy notice against former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak for owing RM1.

PUTRAJAYA (June 10): The Federal Court has fixed Oct 28 to hear the appeal by National Feedlot Corp Sdn Bhd (NFCorp) and its chairman Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail in its defamation suit against PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 9): High Court Judicial Commissioner Atan Mustaffa Yussof Ahmad will hear 1Malaysia Development Bhd's (1MDB) US$7.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 4): High Court Judicial Commissioner Adlin Abdul Majid (pictured) has recused herself from hearing 1Malaysia Development Bhd's (1MDB) lawsuit against ex-prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and 14 others because Adlin and two lawyers representing 1MDB were formerly law firm partners of Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 4): High Court Judge Datuk Ahmad Fairuz Zainol Abidin is now the judge hearing 1Malaysia Development Bhd’s (1MDB) former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd's lawsuit against ex-prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and six others after High Court Judicial Commissioner Liza Chan Sow Keng recused herself from hearing the case as Najib is her friend.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jun2 2): The hearing of the appeal against the Court of Appeal's decision to quash the proposed Taman Rimba Kiara project's development order has been rescheduled to Sept 1.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 28): Malay Mail senior correspondent Ida Lim Lee Ting confirmed at the High Court today that she in 2018 wrote four news articles based on lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah's (pictured) press statement, which was issued in response to allegations that the RM9.

PUTRAJAYA (May 28): The Court of Appeal has granted a subsidiary of Singapore-based Hatten Land Ltd, MDSA Resources Sdn Bhd, an interim protection order to restrain its creditors from taking action against it.

KUALA LUMPUR (May 25): Judges of the Federal Court and the Court of Appeal led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat will be vaccinated beginning May 31.