: Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah failed in their bids to obtain leave to appeal against the dismissal of their judicial review to disqualify Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram from prosecuting in their respective court cases.
He said the law was settled on the appointment of an advocate as deputy public prosecutor and the court had no reason to depart from that decision which had been endorsed by the Federal Court in Anwar’s case. The Federal Court judge said the plain reading and construction of Section 376 and Section 379 of the Criminal Procedure Code pertained to two modes of appointment, firstly direct appointment by the Public Prosecutor and Section 379, by fiat of the prosecutor.
Najib and Muhammd Shafee were also seeking a declaration that there was a conflict of interest in Sri Ram’s appointment and requested for an order to prohibit him from leading the prosecution team in all of their cases, including on corruption, abuse of power and money laundering.
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