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PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has deferred its decision on the appeal of the National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFCorp) and its CEO Mohamad Salleh Ismail in a defamation lawsuit they filed against Nurul Izzah Anwar and PKR.
The appeal was heard for about two hours via Zoom today.
The three-member bank, consisting of Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Hasnah Mohammed Hashim and Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal, postponed the ruling until a date to be determined.
This was confirmed by Nurul Izzah’s lawyer, Razlan Hadri Zulkifli, when contacted.
Attorney Muhammad Shafee Abdullah represented NFCorp and Salleh.
NFCorp and Salleh obtained permission to proceed with their appeal to the Federal Court on March 8, 2018 with two legal questions for the court’s determination.
The lawsuit was filed on December 24, 2013 by NFCorp and Salleh against Nurul Izzah, then a Lembah Pantai deputy, and PKR Secretary General Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, in connection with a statement regarding the allegations regarding the purchase of eight units. of property in KL. Eco City.
They claimed that Nurul Izzah, who is now a deputy from Permatang Pauh, had made a slanderous statement on Malaysiakini TV on March 7, 2012.
On March 4, 2016, the Kuala Lumpur High Court dismissed his claim after ruling that the statement, when read in its entirety, was not defamatory to NFCorp and Salleh.
NFCorp and Salleh also lost their appeal in the court of appeals on July 10, 2017.
In today’s proceedings, Shafee urged the court to allow the appeal, claiming that the Court of Appeal failed to understand that more than one sting was found in the entire contested statement that was defamatory of the appellants (NFCorp and Salleh).
Shafee said the three-man panel of the Court of Appeals had misunderstood the matter by analyzing and deciding that only some of the details of the defamatory statement were relevant to the appellants.
Attorney Razlan responded, saying that it was a well-established principle of law that in deciding whether a defendant had defamed a plaintiff, the court should examine the entire statement and not just focus on the part of the statement that the plaintiff alleges is defamatory. . of the.
He said that the appellants’ appeal should be dismissed as both the High Court and the Court of Appeal had concluded that the contested statement, read in the context of the entire article, did not defame the appellants.
