KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court set Tuesday next week a bid to set aside an injunction restraining the Malaysian Bar from discussing senior lawyer Tan Sri Dr Muhammad Shafee Abdullah's conduct after Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy conviction.
Judge Datuk Asmabi Mohamad fixed the date to hear the application by the Bar, its former president Christopher Leong Sau Foo, and lawyers Tommy Thomas and Tan Sri V.C. George. George is also a former Court of Appeal president.
On March 13, the same court granted Shafee the injunction to prevent the Bar, Leong, Tommy, and George, from discussing a motion on Shafee during the Bar's 69th annual general meeting (AGM) the next day (March
14).
The motion, titled "Motion Against Shafee Abdullah dated Feb 28, 2015", deals with Shafee's conduct after the Federal Court upheld Anwar's conviction and five-year jail-term on Feb 10.
Shafee was represented by counsels Kamarul Hisham Kamaruddin and Hasnal Rezua Merican.
The respondents were represented by counsel Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan, Lambert Rasa-Ratnam and Porres Royan.
Shafee was appointed as lead prosecutor to represent the Public Prosecutor, the respondent in Anwar's appeal against his conviction
and five-year jail-term for sodomising his former aide Mohd Saiful
Bukhari Azlan in 2008.