KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 — On July 28, Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh will be sworn in as the country’s 17th Chief Justice, succeeding Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, who retired on July 2.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 18 — On July 28, Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh will be sworn in as the country’s 17th Chief Justice, succeeding Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, who retired on July 2.

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, July 1 — The Federal Court's five-member bench has ruled that a provision under Section 9(5) of the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 (Act 736), which penalised an organiser who failed to provide the police with a five-day prior notice before holding an assembly, is unconstitutional.

PUTRAJAYA, July 1 — The Federal Court has upheld the death sentence imposed on a former pathologist colonel for the murder of Deputy Public Prosecutor Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais in 2015.

PUTRAJAYA, June 21 — The appeal by Sisters in Islam (SIS) Forum (Malaysia) does not concern the substantive beliefs in the religion of Islam, its mandates or doctrines relating to the Islamic faith but relates to the exercise of legal powers by certain state authorities, says the Federal Court in its judgment.

By Danial Dzulkifly SHAH ALAM, June 21 — The Federal Court’s ruling in the SIS Forum (Malaysia) case is being hailed as a landmark decision that upholds constitutional supremacy while clarifying the limits of religious authority, without diminishing the role of state Islamic...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 — The Federal Court’s decision to allow an appeal by women’s rights group SIS Forum (Malaysia) against a fatwa issued by the Selangor Fatwa Committee, which had declared the organisation deviant from Islamic teachings, will be studied to ensure that the standing and authority of the fatwa institution remain safeguarded in the long term.

PUTRAJAYA, May 15 — The Federal Court has dismissed the appeal by Global Ikhwan Services and Business Holdings (GISBH) chief executive officer Datuk Nasiruddin Mohd Ali and his wife Azura Md Yusof, which sought to have their habeas corpus application remitted to the High Court for a full hearing on its merits.

PUTRAJAYA, May 14 — The Federal Court has reserved its verdict on the final appeals by six men convicted and sentenced to death for the 2015 murder of Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Datuk Anthony Kevin Morais, whose body was found in a concrete-filled drum.

PUTRAJAYA, April 23 — The Federal Court was informed today that there is evidence showing former pathologist Colonel Dr R.

PUTRAJAYA, April 15 — The Federal Court has freed a former escalator machine operator on a charge of trafficking nearly 10kg of drugs found in a car in 2019.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 — The Prime Minister's involvement in the process of appointing judges is not intended to control the independence of the judiciary but to keep the government informed about developments within the judicial institution, according to a constitutional expert.

PUTRAJAYA, March 13 — The Federal Court was told that there was no evidence linking former pathologist Col Dr R.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 10 — The Federal Court has commuted the death sentence imposed on a father convicted of murdering his son to 40 years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 10 — Two followers of the deviant sect group 'Tuhan Harun' convicted of murder escaped the gallows when the Federal Court replaced their death sentence today with 40 years' imprisonment.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 10 — The father of Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu has submitted a letter requesting for the death sentence of the convicted killer of his daughter, Azilah Hadri, to be commuted to imprisonment.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 8 — The Federal Court has upheld the death sentences of a former lawyer and a former farmhand today for the murders of cosmetics millionairess Sosilawati Lawiya and her three aides, committed 14 years ago.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 2 — The Federal Court has upheld the death sentences of seven Filipino men, including a nephew of the self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram, for waging war against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong during the Lahad Datu incursion 11 years ago.

ALOR SETAR, Sept 11 — The mandatory death penalty imposed on a Pakistani man after he was found guilty of murdering a doctor 13 years ago was commuted to 36 years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane by the Federal Court today.