KUALA LUMPUR: High Court judge Azimah Omar wants to meet Lim Kit Siang and former top cop Hanif Omar in the presence of their lawyers to mediate an out-of-court settlement over the DAP leader’s defamation suit, FMT has learnt.
Lim’s lead counsel Ramkarpal Singh said the judge wants to make a final attempt at exploring a settlement without having to go through a trial. “Lim and Hanif have been asked to be present at the next case management at 2.30pm on Aug 28,” Ramkarpal told FMT.Ramkarpal said the parties had attempted over the past month to settle the matter on Azimah’s instructions, but that this had failed.
“We updated the judge but she wants to make a final attempt at mediation, failing which a trial date will be fixed,” Ramkarpal said. Lim filed the suit on Oct 17 last year, claiming that Hanif had, while giving a speech at a “Karamah Bangsa” convention at Universiti Teknologi Mara in Shah Alam on Sept 6, accused Lim of intentionally ordering DAP to split Peninsular Malaysia into two, to divide the Malays and the Chinese.In his statement of claim, the Iskandar Puteri MP said Hanif had also maliciously caused the publication of the alleged defamatory statement in the Malaysiakini and FMT news portals on Sept 6 and 7.
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