PUTRAJAYA: Perak State Assembly Speaker V. Sivakumar can appoint his own lawyer against the suits filed by two parties.
The Court of Appeal said there “is no provision in any law that the Speaker must be represented by the state legal adviser. (He) is not a state officer or a government of the state under Section 24(3) of the Government Proceedings Act 1956.”
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