Govt fails to stay citizenship case


PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has dismissed an application by the government to stay a High Court decision that ruled children born abroad to Malaysian mothers with foreign spouses can be given automatic citizenship.

Justice Kamaludin Md Said, who chaired a three-man panel, said there were no special circumstances to warrant a stay of the High Court’s order as applied for by the appellants.

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