Karpal seeks review of coroner's 'no contempt' ruling

May 23, 10 2:39pm

Veteran lawyer Karpal Singh will be seeking a review of the recent decision by the coroner in the Teoh Beng Hock inquest to clear Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz of contempt following the latter's description of an expert witness as a liar.Contrary to coroner Azmil Muntapha Abas's assertion, said Karpal (right, centre), Nazri did indeed harbour a 'bad motive or ill-intention or to interfere' with the court proceedings as evidenced by the minister's subsequent statement on the matter in Parliament.


“He wants to cite, cite, lah. Karpal can cite me to the World Court, who cares?” Nazri was quoted as saying on April 19.“Bring it on. I have no worries at all,” the de-facto law minister (left) added.Referring to those remarks, Karpal said the coroner "appears to have completely shut his mind from this evidence."
Karpal said he will be filing an application in the coming week to have the ruling of the coroner overturned by revision."The coroner's ruling provides for an open licence for anyone to criticise witnesses for their evidence given in an ongoing trial."The law was never meant to provide for such an eventuality," said Karpal.
Malaysiakini had earlier reported Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand (right) as saying she was being subjected to “political pressure” from the Malaysian government to stop her from testifying in the coroner's inquest into the death of Teoh, a DAP activist and aide to a Selangor exco.
Contacted for a response to Pornthip's claims, Nazri said the forensic expert was a “liar.”“She is a liar! She lied in the inquest and she is lying now,” he told Malaysiakini."As you very well know, today with the Internet and everything, it would be suicidal for the Malaysian government to stop her from testifying,” he added.
The Selangor government, which had engaged Pornthip to obtain her expert testimony for the inquest, as since applied for her to give her testimony by video link.

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