We refer to the Government's appeal against the landmark constitutional decision on 25th April 2014 by the Court of Appeal striking down s.9(5) of the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 in Selangor Deputy Speaker Nik Nazmi's case.
At about 3pm on Friday 16th May 2014, we received a call from the Deputy Registrar of the Federal Court informing us that the Appeal was fixed for hearing on Tuesday 27th May 2014. Earlier, it had only been fixed for mention on 27th May.
We were informed by the Deputy Registrar that this was being done on the instructions of the Chief Justice.
This leaves only 6 working days from now to the hearing of the appeal. It should be noted that the appeal will involve lengthy and novel arguments on important constitutional matters relating to the rakyat's fundamental liberties.
We are instructed by the Federal Court to file written submissions by 20th May 2014, which gives us one working day to prepare submissions.
Surprisingly, the hearing date of 27/5/14 has been fixed despite the fact that the court has not served the Petition of Appeal upon us. The Petition of Appeal is a crucial document containing the Appellant's grounds for the appeal.
No mention or case management date was fixed, and no attempt made by the Federal Court to ascertain our free dates.
As this appeal is a matter of great public importance and interest, it is our duty to make these facts public.
N Surendran & Latheefa Koya, Lawyers for Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
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