Zaid, two lawyers claim defamation, demand apology from Bar president


Karen Cheah. -The Star filepic

PETALING JAYA: Legal action will begin against Malaysian Bar president Karen Cheah if she does not retract a press statement she issued and apologise, says Datuk Zaid Ibrahim and two other lawyers.

Zaid, Liew Teck Huat and Rueben Mathiavaranam – who had acted for former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the SRC International final appeal – said that Cheah's statement was “grave and serious libel” of their conduct.

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