Court dismisses NGO, residents’ Lynas licence extension challenge

 

The Court of Appeal has affirmed the High Court’s decision refusing leave for judicial review over the extension of Lynas’s licence to operate its rare earth processing facility. (Facebook pic)

PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has unanimously dismissed a legal challenge filed by an NGO and two Kuantan residents against the then Pakatan Harapan (PH) Cabinet’s decision to grant Lynas Malaysia an extension of the licence to operate its rare earth processing facility.

Justice Azizul Azmi Adnan, who sat with a three-member bench, said the relief sought by the appellants had been rendered academic by subsequent events.

Reading out the broad grounds Azizul said the bench would not express any opinion even if a decision previously made in respect of the licensing extension and amendments of the preconditions were unlawful.

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