Khir Toyo a high profile court case in 2015

KUALA LUMPUR: The year 2015 cannot be easily forgotten with corruption, defamation and political cases brought to court.
Some of the major cases were:
> Former Selangor mentri besar Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo was jailed a year for corruption and lost ownership of his property after the Federal Court upheld the High Court's judgement on Sept 29.
Khir Toyo, 50, was charged with corruption for purchasing for himself and his wife, Zahrah Kechik, two plots of land and a mansion at No. 8 and 10, Jalan Suasa 7/1L, in Section 7, Shah Alam.
> Anina Saadudin, Umno Langkawi division member, filed a civil action on behalf of Umno against party president and Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, and Umno's public officer Datuk Ab Rauf Yusoh, in relation to a donation for RM2.6 billion.
Subsequently, Anina sued Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, for sacking her from the party (after she had filed the suit against Najib) and sought for an order that her termination was invalid.
However, on Dec 7, the High Court allowed Tengku Adnan and Ab Rauf's application to strike out Anina's suit, saying it had no jurisdiction to hear her dispute. She has filed an appeal against the decision.
Najib and Ab Rauf also filed an application to strike out Anina's suit, claiming she has no "locus standi" (position).
> Mansoor Saat, Azira Aziz, Hasbeemaputra Abu Bakar and Hazwany Jamaluddin filed an originating summons on June 4, 2015, and an application for an injunction to stop PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang from tabling a bill.
They named Hadi, Dewan Rakyat speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia, deputy speakers Datuk Ismail Mohamad Said and Datuk Seri Dr Ronald Kiandee, and Dewan Rakyat secretary Datuk Roosme Hamzah as defendants.
They sought to stop or disallow the defendants from presenting or debating the "bill to amend Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965".
Hadi claimed the originating summons filed by the four applicants had no merit.
The High Court allowed Hadi's application to strike out the suit on Nov 9, 2015, which allowed Hadi to table the bill.
> MIC was embroiled with legal matters over the party's registration and re-election. Two judicial reviews were filed to review the Registrar of Societies (ROS) directive to hold re-election in the party.
At the start of the year, the party's strategic director filed a judicial review application against the ROS decision to issue a letter to the party.
K. Ramalingam, 47, named Mohammad Razin Abdullah (director-general of ROS) and the ROS as the respondents on Feb 23, 2015. This was followed by another judicial review filed by then MIC president Datuk Seri G. Palanivel, former MIC secretary-general A. Prakash Rao and Datuk S. Sothianathan and Datuk S. Balakrishnan on the next day.
In both applications, the ROS and the then minister of home affairs, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zaid Hamidi were named as respondents.
They sought to quash the ROS directives through letters dated Dec 5 and Dec 31, 2014; and Feb 5, 2015 and sought a declaration that the letters and directives were wrong in law, were invalid, void and of no legal effect.
On June 15 this year, the High Court ordered MIC to comply with the ROS directive to hold fresh elections as Palanivel and four others had failed to quash the directive through judicial review application.
> Najib sued former transport minister Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik for accusing him of misusing public funds. Ling counter sues Najib over abuse of court process and claimed damages.
> Najib filed a defamation suit naming Tony Pua, 42, and Chan Chee Kong, 51, who is the sole proprietor of "MR Multimedia", which owns "Mediarakyat.net", over a speech uploaded on the website.
On March 18, 2015, Najib named the managing director of Harakah, Dr Rosli Yaakob, and chief editor Taufek Yahya as the defendants, over defamatory statements that he abused funds belonging to 1MDB.
> On Nov 24, 2015, National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFCorp) executive chairman Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Salleh Ismail was acquitted of two charges of criminal breach of trust (CBT) involving RM49.7 million by the sessions court.
The court was told Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali had consented to give Salleh a discharge not amounting to an acquittal, after a letter of representation sent to the Attorney-General's Chambers in September.
> Several IS terrorists or those who supported the ideology, attempted to support or wanted to enter Syria were brought to court.
Among them were Zulqarnain Ghaz Abd Ghani who was jailed for nine years for entering Syria and his wife Poziah Harun was jailed six months for harbouring her husband by the High Court.