Court strikes out lawyer's suit challenging legality of Anwar's royal pardon

The Court of Appeal today struck out a lawsuit filed by a lawyer questioning the legality of the royal pardon granted to opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim for his sodomy conviction.

In striking out the lawsuit by Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz, the court allowed the appeals by Anwar and the Pardons Board against a High Court's dismissal of their applications to strike out the lawsuit.

A three-member bench of the Court of Appeal, comprising Has Zanah Mehat, Mohd Sofian Abd Razak and Lee Heng Cheong, in allowing the appeals by Anwar and the Pardons Board, held that...