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Judge Datuk Amarjeet Singh Serjit Singh dismissed the judicial review application and ordered the residents to pay costs.

At the same time, the three-member bench, led by Datuk Lee Swee Seng, will also deliver its decision on a cross-appeal by Semantan Estate over an earlier High Court decision in 2021, to not allow the transfer of the land to the company, owing to the presence of the government buildings there.

Deputy chairman Datuk Seri Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib filed the suit at the High Court in Kuching.

The purchasers, which include co-owners, received RM15,922 for each unit from the proceeds, which was 2.

Senior counsel Datuk Dr Cyrus Das, representing Semantan Estate, said that if the court were not able to enforce its own order, then there would arise great doubt on the upholding the rule of law on the government, the country, and its citizens.

Senior Federal Counsel (SFC) Shamsul Bolhassan told a three-member bench led by Datuk Lee Swee Seng that this in accordance with Section 29(1)(b) of the Government Proceedings Act 1956 (GPA).

At the last Nov 7 sitting, Court of Appeal judge Datuk Lee Swee Seng had asked both parties to look into settling the long dispute, and, should there be none, the hearing is to proceed on Feb 20 and 21.

Teen was charged in July 2020 with bribing Malaysian officials to secure the sale of Dudley House to Mara as well as four counts of false accounting related to the sale.

The suit revolved around an alleged RM28.

Allowing a summary judgement means that the court allows a party’s application to have a judgement against another without going for a full trial.