Jenice Lee vs DAP case management on Oct 28

(The Star) – The High Court here has fixed Oct 28 for the next case management of a suit filed by former Teratai assemblyman Jenice Lee Ying Ha against the DAP over her expulsion from the party. 

Justice Nor Bee Ariffin set the date in chambers after meeting counsel Harjit Singh Sandhu who acted for Lee while Sangeet Kaur, for DAP.  

Sangeet told reporters later that they would inform the court on Lee’s current position in the party. She said the plaintiff’s counsel would reassess Lee’s position before taking further action.  

“The judge later set Oct 28 for the next case management,” Sangeet said.

On June 5, Lee had filed the suit against the DAP over her expulsion from the party.  

Lee, 33, had named DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng as the defendant.  

In the statement of claim, Lee sought a declaration for her membership in DAP since 2001 to be reinstated immediately, with cost and other relief deemed fit by the court.  

She claimed that her expulsion from the party, which she knew through the media last April 20, was null and void because an investigation by the Registrar of Society (ROS) revealed that the election of the party’s central executive council (CEC) members, held in December last year, was not in accordance with the DAP constitution.  

In the recent 13th general election, Lee, the former Selangor DAP publicity secretary, contested as an independent candidate for the Teratai seat, but lost.