Zambri lawan Nizar: Sept 4, Sivakumar's Judicial Review

The Kuala Lumpur High Court has maintained Sept 4 for hearing Perak speaker V Sivakumar's judicial review application to declare vacant the state seats held by three independents who quit Pakatan Rakyat.

This comes after Sivakumar's counsel Razlan Hadri Zulkifli informed Justice Lau Bee Lan in chambers today that lawyer Ranjit Singh, who is also acting for the speaker, submitted an affidavit in court yesterday to support the application and to state that this case was still relevant."Copies of the affidavit were submitted to court and also the Attorney-General's Chambers, which is representing the Election Commission who was also made a party to the legal action," he said.

This was despite the Federal Court's five-member bench ruling on April 9 that the three will remain state representatives as the EC was the rightful body to declare a seat vacant.Razlan Hadri said in the affidavit, the lawyer maintained that it was the speaker who had the powers to determine whether a casual vacancy occurred."This is still a live issue despite what representatives from the AG's Chambers could be contending.