Clare Rewcastle-Brown fails to transfer criminal defamation case to KL High Court


KUALA LUMPUR: Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown has failed to transfer her criminal defamation case involving Terengganu Sultanah, Sultanah Nur Zahirah, from the Kuala Terengganu Magistrate's Court to the High Court here.

High Court judge Justice K. Muniandy dismissed her application for transfer on the grounds that it lacks merit.

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