KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak has failed in his bid to recuse High Court judge Justice Alice Loke Yee Ching from presiding over his judicial review relating to the royal addendum order that he claimed would allow him to go under house arrest.
Lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah made an oral application for the judge to recuse herself, arguing that her earlier remarks in the decision for Najib's leave application to initiate contempt proceedings against former attorney general Tan Sri Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh gave rise to a possible perception of bias.
