DAY 2 | Najib's SRC review bid: 'First time apex court denied lawyer discharge'

Today is the second day of the hearing of Najib Abdul Razak’s review bid to overturn his guilty verdict, as well as the 12-year jail sentence and RM210 million fine in a corruption case involving RM42 million of funds from SRC International.

The Federal Court bench headed by Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Abdul Rahman Sebli is expected to continue hearing oral submissions from the former prime minister’s lead defence counsel, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah where he left off back on Jan 19 last month.

On that date, Shafee, among others, submitted that there was no conspiracy between him and Najib’s then-lawyers from the law firm Zaid Ibrahim Sufian TH Liew and Partners to delay the hearing of Najib’s appeal before the Federal Court last year.

The current panel also comprises Federal Court judges Vernon Ong Lam Kiat, Rhodzariah Bujang and Nordin Hassan - as well as Court of Appeal judge Abu Bakar Jais.

The bench has also fixed tomorrow and Wednesday for the hearing of Najib’s review application...