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PUTRAJAYA: Sidang Injil Borneo (SIB) has filed a notice to suspend its permission to appeal the application in Federal Court for the discovery of documents related to the Cabinet decision prohibiting the use of the word “Allah” in non-Muslim publications.
Attorney Bobby Chew, representing SIB and its president, Jerry WA [email protected] W Pate, when contacted, said the notice to withdraw the application was filed on March 22.
He said that he had informed the court of this decision during the handling of the case via e-Review yesterday.
On March 17, Chew had said that he received instructions from his clients to withdraw authorization to appeal the document discovery request in light of the High Court’s decision to allow a judicial review by Sarawak native Christian Jill Ireland Lawrence. Bill.
In November of last year, SIB filed a motion in Federal Court for permission to appeal against the Court of Appeals dismissal of the church’s appeal over the discovery of the documents on October 12 of last year.
On October 16, 2017, the Kuala Lumpur High Court had dismissed the church’s request for the documents and ruled that they were classified under the Official Secrets Act.
The documents were requested by the church and Dusing in a request for judicial review filed on December 10, 2007 against the Interior Ministry and the government for their right to use the word “Allah” to refer to God in their religious publications.
SIB and Dusing filed the judicial review after Christian religious books in the Malay language containing the word “Allah”, brought from Surabaya, Indonesia, were seized by the Customs Department at the low-cost transport terminal in Sepang in August. 2007.
On October 1, 2014, the Court of Appeal cleared the church to begin a judicial review on the right to use the word “Allah” in all its religious publications and materials after the Kuala Lumpur High Court on 5 May 2014, rejected SIB’s request for permission to initiate a judicial review.
They are looking for a statement that they have a constitutional right to use the word “Allah” in their Christian Bibles translated into Malaysian Bahasa and Indonesian Bahasa and in all their religious publications and materials.
The church’s judicial review in Superior Court is scheduled for case management on April 19.
