SIS' challenge against fatwa goes back to High Court - after 4 years

The legal challenge by Sisters in Islam against an edict (fatwa) declaring it as deviant by the Selangor Fatwa Committee four years ago goes back to the High Court.

A seven-member Federal Court made the ruling by a consent judgment today.

Chief justice Richard Malanjum, who led the bench, reverted the matter to the High Court to allow arguments on merits and jurisdiction, which were points of contention at the apex court...