A senior federal counsel prepared a total of 110 questions to quiz electoral reform NGO Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah at the Kuala Lumpur High Court, during cross-examination today.
This meant the cross-examination could not be completed today as it went beyond the court's operating hours.
After cross-examining Maria (left) for about two hours, senior federal counsel Normastura Ayub, who represents the Malaysian government in a civil suit, told the court that she had the long list of question and sought permission for a short break.
The questions posed to Maria earlier touched on several topics, including the latter's involvement in the Bersih steering committee, the numbers of meetings held prior to the April 28, 2012 rally and PAS' Unit Amal volunteer corps' engagement and crowd management training.
Presiding judge John Louis O'Hara called an adjournment at 5pm after Normastura had completed her 83rd question.
The government filed the suit against Maria and 14 other steering coalition members over damages and losses caused during the Bersih 3.0 protest on April 28, 2012.
The government is claiming special compensation amounting to RM122,000 as the costs for repairing damaged police vehicles, other costs, interests and other relief deemed fit by the court.
The judge earlier interrupted the government's counsel because she was asking irrelevant questions on the 2011 Bersih rally to co-defendant Arul Prakkash (right), who is also a Bersih committee member.
This invited giggles from those sitting in the public gallery in the court.
“Unless you can justify that you are laying certain foundation, or else I don't see the relevance,” Justice O'Hara said.
Improper questions
Normastura then was admonished for “not paying attention to the evidence” and confusing the court by messing up Arul's testimony.
Besides Maria and Arul, other steering committee members Dr Toh Kin Woon and Yeo Yang Poh were also called up to testify as defendants in the court today.
In the cross-examination with Toh, federal counsel Nurul Ainy Yahaya was also warned by the judge for asking improper questions.
Nurul Ainy asked: “If I were a police officer, do you think placing barbed wires shows an act of violence?”
Toh's counsel Lim Jit Kong then objected and Justice O'Hara agreed, saying that was not a proper question, telling Nurul Ainy, “You are a federal counsel, not a police officer.”
Nurul Ainy also later apologised to the court for making grammatical mistakes, which drew another round of titters from the public gallery.
This meant the cross-examination could not be completed today as it went beyond the court's operating hours.
After cross-examining Maria (left) for about two hours, senior federal counsel Normastura Ayub, who represents the Malaysian government in a civil suit, told the court that she had the long list of question and sought permission for a short break.The questions posed to Maria earlier touched on several topics, including the latter's involvement in the Bersih steering committee, the numbers of meetings held prior to the April 28, 2012 rally and PAS' Unit Amal volunteer corps' engagement and crowd management training.
Presiding judge John Louis O'Hara called an adjournment at 5pm after Normastura had completed her 83rd question.
The government filed the suit against Maria and 14 other steering coalition members over damages and losses caused during the Bersih 3.0 protest on April 28, 2012.
The government is claiming special compensation amounting to RM122,000 as the costs for repairing damaged police vehicles, other costs, interests and other relief deemed fit by the court.
The judge earlier interrupted the government's counsel because she was asking irrelevant questions on the 2011 Bersih rally to co-defendant Arul Prakkash (right), who is also a Bersih committee member.This invited giggles from those sitting in the public gallery in the court.
“Unless you can justify that you are laying certain foundation, or else I don't see the relevance,” Justice O'Hara said.
Improper questions
Normastura then was admonished for “not paying attention to the evidence” and confusing the court by messing up Arul's testimony.
Besides Maria and Arul, other steering committee members Dr Toh Kin Woon and Yeo Yang Poh were also called up to testify as defendants in the court today.
In the cross-examination with Toh, federal counsel Nurul Ainy Yahaya was also warned by the judge for asking improper questions.
Nurul Ainy asked: “If I were a police officer, do you think placing barbed wires shows an act of violence?”
Toh's counsel Lim Jit Kong then objected and Justice O'Hara agreed, saying that was not a proper question, telling Nurul Ainy, “You are a federal counsel, not a police officer.”
Nurul Ainy also later apologised to the court for making grammatical mistakes, which drew another round of titters from the public gallery.
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