Federal Court to rehear legality of NSC Act brought by Anwar

PKR president Anwar Ibrahim today succeeded in his application to review a majority decision by the Federal Court to decline to answer legal questions on the constitutionality of the National Security Council Act (NSC) 2016.

A seven-member bench led by Federal Court judge Abdul Rahman Sebli, in a unanimous decision, allowed Anwar’s review application to set aside the majority verdict on Feb 11.

The court, thus, ordered the case to be reheard at the Federal Court.

Rahman said the court’s jurisdiction under Rule 137 of the Rules of the Federal Court 1995 was extremely limited and only exercised in very...