The Attorney-General Chambers said it will continue to object and bid to strike out Dr Mahathir Mohamad's legal challenge on the findings of the royal commission of inquiry on 1990s foreign exchange losses.
This comes as Mahathir bids to include portions of evidence from his testimony and submissions from his lawyer.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court today heard submissions on the striking out application of the judicial challenge after attorney-general Tommy Thomas did not respond to Mahathir's lawyer Mohd Haniff Khatri Abdullah letter last August for the AG not to object to Mahathir's application.
Senior federal counsel Mazlifah Ayob told reporters that her chambers' objection to the application to strike out the RCI's findings was non-justiciable.
Furthermore, she argued, the matter had become academic as the findings had been released to the public and it would be too late to change anything now.
Mazlifah said further that Mahathir's challenge did not stipulate the cause of action.
"For these reasons, the chambers asked that the application be struck out," she said.
Her submissions was made in Justice Azizah Nawawi's chambers.
Mahathir filed the originating summons last December against all the six forex RCI members claiming that their report was incomplete.
He named RCI chairperson Mohd Sidek Hassan, Kamaludin Mohd Said, Tajuddin Stan, Saw Choon Boon, K Pushpanathan and Yusof Ismail along with former premier Najib Abdul Razak, the cabinet and government as respondents.
[More to follow] -Mkini
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