Sarawak Report editor fails in bid to transfer defamation case to KL

KUALA LUMPUR: Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown has failed to transfer her criminal defamation case involving the Sultanah of Terengganu, 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 grounds that it lacked merit.