Editor’s bid to question defamation charge ‘premature’

Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle Brown.

KUALA LUMPUR: Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown’s application to refer her two legal questions on the constitutionality of her criminal defamation charges to the Federal Court was “premature”, ruled the High Court.

Justice Mohamed Zaini Mazlan said her application to transfer the case from the Magistrate’s Court to the High Court must be heard and disposed of first.