PUTRAJAYA: A High Court judge was wrong in ordering a lower court to admit the testimony of five witnesses taken in a Hong Kong magistrates court pertaining to the trial of Tan Sri Eric Chia Eng Hock, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday.
Chias counsel Datuk Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said the High Court, in exercising its revisionary powers, had in fact allowed a back door appeal when in law, interim appeals governing such matters were not sanctioned.
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