News by Hafiz Yatim

The internal memo is directed at High Court deputies and senior registrars nationwide.

The Federal Court chief registrar's office said in a statement today that it had taken note of the Prisons Department director-general Datuk Seri Zulkifli Omar's letter dated April 2, proposing that offenders to the Movement Control Order (MCO) be sentenced to community service instead of jail.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Afzainizam Abdul Aziz confirmed that High Court's Justice Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali fixed the date after the initial date, March 23, was vacated due to the MCO.

"... the complainant wants the MACC to investigate the rise in costs of the ECRL project from RM30 billion to RM44 billion."

Datuk Baljit Singh Sidhu: What they should do is take the offenders’ statements and let them off on police bail with the view of charging them later. This would be safer.

In a statement issued by the Federal Court's chief registrar's office, it said the directive and statement issued on March 17 applies, where parties are required to apply to court for the hearing of civil cases to be done online by using the e-Review, exchange of emails and video conferencing.

AmBank Islamic and AMMB filed the striking-out motion earlier this month before March 2.

They are among the 14 individuals who were remanded by the court earlier during the same period up to yesterday.

There were concerns previously that the hearing could be postponed, following the implementation of the Movement Control Order, especially since Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin indicated earlier this week that the partial lockdown could be extended, should the 14-day containment fail to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

However, remand of individuals under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code would continue as usual, the statement said.