Judge sets April 19 to decide whether to recuse from Maips hearing

A judge has set April 19 to decide whether she should withdraw from hearing an application by a state Islamic body to be allowed to give Islamic guidance to the three unilaterally-converted children of Loh Siew Hong.

Evrol Mariette Petters, a judge of the High Court (family and divorce civil jurisdiction) in Kuala Lumpur, told this to lawyers for both the single mother as well as the Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Etiquette Council (Maips).

The judge was responding to Maips' lawyer Mohamed Haniff Khatri Abdulla, who said that they...