KUALA LUMPUR: The publisher of a news portal being sued by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for defamation is seeking to recuse the judicial commissioner assigned for the case on grounds that there is a “real danger of bias”.
The publisher of Malaysiakini and the portal’s editors are instead asking that the judicial commissioner be replaced by a full High Court judge to hear their case.
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