KUALA LUMPUR: The Edge Communications Sdn Bhd today secured leave to apply for a judicial review over the suspension of two of its publications by the Home Ministry.
The publications, The Edge Malaysia and The Edge Financial Daily, were suspended for three months from July 27 over published articles pertaining to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad issue.
High Court Judge Datuk Asmabi Mohamad handed down the decision in chambers in the presence of Senior Federal Counsel Alice Loke, who represented the ministry, and the company’s lawyer Daryl Goon, according to Loke.
Loke also told reporters that the court, however, dismissed an application by the company to lift the suspension of the two publications pending the inter-parte hearing of the application which the court had set for Aug 12.
The company had filed an application for leave for a judicial review on July 27 by naming the Home Ministry secretary-general and the Home Minister as the respondents.-Bernama