Dr M judicial review verdict same day of his Batu Puteh RCI summoning

The Kuala Lumpur High Court will decide on Wednesday whether to allow Dr Mahathir Mohamad's judicial review to recuse former chief justice Md Raus Sharif and two others from chairing a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) over the sovereignty of Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks, and South Ledge.

The civil court verdict is a mere hour before the RCI at Putrajaya is set to subpoena the former prime minister to attend the inquiry over whether Malaysia should have withdrawn its appeal against a 2008 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision.

The ICJ ruling awarded sovereignty over Pulau Batu Puteh to...