PUTRAJAYA: There is no reason for the Court of Appeal to interfere with the High Court’s decision in the wrongful arrest of five lawyers at the Brickfields police station in 2009 as they tried to provide legal aid to their clients.
Upholding the RM375,000 award to the lawyers, Court of Appeal panel chairman Justice Zaharah Ibrahim, together with Justices Varghese George Varughese and Prasad Sandosham Abraham, unanimously dismissed the Government’s appeal with RM30,000 in costs.
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