Najib's wife files application to disqualify High Court judge in her corruption trial

KUALA LUMPUR The wife of jailed former Malaysian prime minster Najib Razak, who is fighting her own corruption case, has filed an application to disqualify High Court judge Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan from presiding over her trialThe judge is scheduled to deliver his decision at the end of the defence's case on Thursday morning.

Earlier she failed in her latest bid to disqualify Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram from leading the prosecution in the same case. "I observe that the instant application is unprecedented in the context of the Malaysian judiciary where a party is actually seeking a High Court to judicial review the decision of another High Court," he said."This court has no jurisdiction to grant leave to hear the substantive judicial review application.

On Sept 24, 2021, High Court judge Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan, the presiding judge in Rosmah's solar hybrid trial, dismissed Rosmah's application to disqualifyMr Sri Ram.

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