Apex court allows Shafee's appeal in suit against M'sian Bar

The Federal Court in Putrajaya today allowed senior lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah's appeal over his suit against the Malaysian Bar and two others relating to his conduct as the deputy public prosecutor in Anwar Ibrahim's Sodomy II case.

The two other respondents were former attorney-general Tommy Thomas and former Court of Appeal judge VC George.

A three-member bench comprising Court of Appeal president Rohana Yusuf, Federal Court judges Vernon Ong Lam Kiat and Abdul Rahman Sebli also set aside the Court of Appeal's decision and directed the case to be reverted to the High Court for assessment of damages against the Malaysian Bar as the third respondent.

Rahman, when reading the unanimous decision, said the court did not...