Lawyer seeks Federal Court ruling on emergency-linked law

A lawyer is seeking for the Federal Court to determine the validity of a law that bars the courts from hearing legal action over the proclamation of emergency.

Syed Iskandar Syed Jaafar (above) today filed the application for the Kuala Lumpur High Court to refer the constitutional issue of the ouster clause to the apex court.

He is making the bid in relation to his ongoing suit for the High Court to give guidance over the Yang di-Pertuan Agong’s initial refusal to accede to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s advice to declare a state of emergency.

On Oct 30 last year, Syed Iskandar filed the lawsuit seeking the court’s guidance over the issue of the Agong’s initial refusal to accede...