The Federal Court will rehear on Aug 16 an appeal by the National Registration Department and two others on whether Muslim children conceived out of wedlock can bear their father's surname.
"Court of Appeal president Ahmad Maarop will not deliver the decision as previously indicated," he told reporters after attending case management on the appeal before deputy registrar Norhafizah Zainal Abidin.On Feb 7 last year, a five-member Federal Court panel led by then chief justice Md Raus Sharif heard the appeal, but reserved its decision.
At case management today, senior federal counsel Mazlifah Ayob represented the NRD, its director-general and the government. On May 25, 2017, the Court of Appeal panel ruled in favour of the couple and their child who filed a judicial review to compel the NRD director-general to replace the child's surname"Abdullah" with the name of the child's father in the birth certificate.
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