Shah Alam High Court sets Feb 22 to fix date on AGC’s application

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SHAH ALAM: The Shah Alam High Court yesterday fixed Feb 22 to set a date to hear the Attorney-General Chambers’s (AGC) application for a stay of execution over a judgment award of RM1.43 million to a retiree in 2010.

Shah Alam High Court deputy registrar Zulkpli (repeat Zulkpli) Abdullah set the date in chambers in the presence of Federal Counsel Nur Aqilah Abdullah and the retiree, Dickson Ng Sek Wah, 62, who was unrepresented.

The application on the stay of execution of the RM1.43 million award was filed by the AGC in March 2011 and the case has since been brought to the Court of Appeal.

Nur Aqilah said the case management on the appeal by the AGC against the High Court’s decision to award the damages to the retiree has been set for March 12 this year.

At the same time, Ng filed an application to Zulkpli to enable him to be represented in the case as his former lawyer had got a lien that prevented him from being represented by other lawyers until he had settled the legal fees owing to his former solicitor.

The RM1.43 million was awarded to Ng by the Shah Alam High Court in November 2010 after Ng sued eight police officers, including the Inspector-General of Police, and the government for unlawful arrest and wrongful imprisonment in 1997. — Bernama