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Ex-AG Thomas to challenge Najib’s testimony in libel suit
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Faisal Asyraf
The High Court will hear submissions and rule on objections raised to portions of Najib Razak’s witness statement next month
Najib Razak is suing Tommy Thomas over allegedly defamatory content contained in the former attorney-general’s memoir, My Story: Justice in the Wilderness.
SHAH ALAM: The High Court has allowed former attorney-general Tommy Thomas to challenge portions of Najib Razak’s witness statement in the former prime minister’s ongoing defamation suit against him.
Justice Khadijah Idris also directed Thomas’s counsel, Alan Adrian Gomez, to formally file his client’s objections.
The court fixed Sept 19 to hear oral submissions from both parties, with a ruling on the objections to follow.
Gomez raised his objections during lawyer Shafee Abdullah’s examination-in-chief of Najib at the trial this morning.
Shafee’s line of questioning had centred on the late private investigator P Balasubramaniam, also known as PI Bala, who testified in the murder trial of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Balasubramaniam entered the spotlight when he linked Najib to Altantuya’s murder in a statutory declaration dated July 1, 2008.
He retracted his allegations in a second statutory declaration.
Najib is suing Thomas and publisher GB Gerakbudaya Enterprise Sdn Bhd over allegedly defamatory content in Thomas’s memoir, My Story: Justice in the Wilderness, published in early 2021.
Najib’s complaint centres around the contents of Chapter 42, titled Altantuya, which runs from pages 400 to 405.
He is seeking unspecified damages and wants words and statements deemed defamatory to be removed.
He also wants Thomas and Gerakbudaya to tender an apology, and is seeking a permanent injunction to prevent them from publishing defamatory statements about him.
Justice Khadijah Idris also directed Thomas’s counsel, Alan Adrian Gomez, to formally file his client’s objections.
The court fixed Sept 19 to hear oral submissions from both parties, with a ruling on the objections to follow.
Gomez raised his objections during lawyer Shafee Abdullah’s examination-in-chief of Najib at the trial this morning.
Shafee’s line of questioning had centred on the late private investigator P Balasubramaniam, also known as PI Bala, who testified in the murder trial of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Balasubramaniam entered the spotlight when he linked Najib to Altantuya’s murder in a statutory declaration dated July 1, 2008.
He retracted his allegations in a second statutory declaration.
Najib is suing Thomas and publisher GB Gerakbudaya Enterprise Sdn Bhd over allegedly defamatory content in Thomas’s memoir, My Story: Justice in the Wilderness, published in early 2021.
Najib’s complaint centres around the contents of Chapter 42, titled Altantuya, which runs from pages 400 to 405.
He is seeking unspecified damages and wants words and statements deemed defamatory to be removed.
He also wants Thomas and Gerakbudaya to tender an apology, and is seeking a permanent injunction to prevent them from publishing defamatory statements about him.
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