Judges have wide discretion to write their grounds of judgment either in the national language Bahasa Malaysia or English.

In delivering the ruling today, the Federal Court also dismissed Anwar Ibrahim's preliminary objection to a Court of Appeal judgment over a defamation suit he had filed in 2006 against Dr Mahathir Mohamad because it was in English. The appellate court judgment was however written in English.


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