PUTRAJAYA: Federal Court judge Justice Richard Malanjum has recused himself from hearing the application for leave to appeal by the Selangor Government and three others against the decision that the land acquired for the Elite Highway was customary and ancestral land occupied by the Temuan tribe for generations.
Justice Malanjum said that, on July 8 last year, while sitting in the Court of Appeal, he had decided in another case involving native customary rights over a piece of land in Sarawak.