Court grants TV3 leave to appeal defamation suit by ex-Perak MB

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has granted leave to Sistem Television (M) Bhd (TV3) to appeal in relation to a defamation suit filed by former Perak mentri besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin over his tweets on the WWW1 vehicle registration number bid that was won by the Sultan of Johor.

Court of Appeal president Justice Md Raus Sharif, who chaired a five-man panel, allowed leave to TV3 to appeal after its lead counsel Liew Teck Huat raised on the issue of public perception on whether there was a ‘judicial bias’ in a coram, which ruled in Mohammad Nizar's favour last year.