Federal Court sets Oct 25 to hear citizenship appeals


PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has set Oct 25 to hear the appeals by the Association of Family Support and Welfare Selangor and Kuala Lumpur (Family Frontiers) and six Malaysian mothers against a ruling denying automatic citizenship to children born overseas to Malaysian women and their foreign spouses.

Lawyer Abraham Au, representing Family Frontiers and the mothers, confirmed the hearing date, as did senior federal counsel Liew Horng Bin, who is representing the government.

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