KUALA LUMPUR, July 3 — Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Hasnah Mohammed Hashim will assume the powers and responsibilities of the chief justice, including functions under the constitution, until the post is filled.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 18 — The Federal Court was told today that the conviction and the death sentence imposed on six former National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) students for the murder of Royal Malaysian Navy cadet officer Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain is unsafe and should be set aside.

PUTRAJAYA, July 25 — The Federal Court has allowed the appeals by two developers in their bid to stop claims for liquidated ascertained damages (LAD) from homebuyers over late delivery of vacant possession.

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, Sept 26 — A group of Orang Asli villagers of Kg Kelaik in Gua Musang, Kelantan today failed to obtain leave to pursue their appeal at the Federal Court to get an interlocutory injunction order to stop 14 entities, including the Kelantan state government, from carrying out work on their ancestral land.