Court of Appeal still hasn’t delivered written judgment
By Zedeck Siew (The Nut Graph)
KUALA LUMPUR, 17 June 2009: The Court of Appeal still hasn't made available its written judgment to Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin's legal team even though it has been three-and-a-half weeks since the appellate court ruled that Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir was the legitimate Perak menteri besar (MB).
In the meantime, the window of opportunity for Nizar to apply for leave to appeal against the Court of Appeal's 22 May 2009 decision is fast coming to an end since he only has 30 days to do so.
Nizar told a press conference in Parliament today that his legal team would be filing for leave to appeal this week in any case because his time was running out.
"They (the Court of Appeal judges) only gave us a five-minute oral judgement on 22 May," Nizar said.
"I have difficulties in reading what was on the mind of the judges," Nizar said, expressing his frustrations at how he may be thwarted in appealing to the Federal Court.
Nizar's lawyer Sulaiman Abdullah had previously said that his legal team needed the written judgement in order to request leave from the Federal Court to file an appeal.
The Court of Appeal's written judgement is usually needed so that the grounds of appeal can be spelt out for the Federal Court to consider.
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