Agc To Continue Pursuing Addendum Gag Order Until Told Otherwise

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The Attorney-General’s Chambers will continue seeking a gag order to bar the public from discussing the royal addendum instructing for former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak to undergo house arrest.
According to Berita Harian today, senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan said his team would pursue the application unless instructed otherwise.
Earlier, the Malay daily reported Shamsul as saying that the gag order application was made to protect the royal institution.
No cabinet instruction
On Jan 14, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman Said said there shouldn’t be a gag order on Najib’s royal pardon judicial review.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Azalina Othman SaidYesterday, government spokesperson Fahmi Fadzil confirmed that the cabinet was not involved in the AGC’s decision to seek a gag order on the matter.
“We did not discuss it. We do not instruct the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC),” Fahmi was reported as saying.
This led to MCA vice-president Lawrence Low asking if the government is hiding something, saying the AGC’s move is contrary to the government’s previous stand in championing transparency.
The AGC applied for the gag order at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Jan 13.
Najib’s counsel, Muhammad Farhan Muhammad Shafee confirmed that the AGC notified this during case management before judge Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz. - Mkini

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