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HIGH COURT MALAYA KUALA LUMPUR
KANAWAGI SEPERUMANIAM – Appellant
Versus
ABDUL HAMID MOHAMAD – Respondent
Faiza Tamby Chik J:
[1] This judgment raises a very important practice aspect of the participation and role of the Attorney General's Chambers and the respondents at the stage of the ex parte application for leave made pursuant to O 53 r 3(2) of the Rules of the High 1980 ('the RHC') for judicial review. As the number of judicial review applications are on the increase, I hope this judgment will serve as a suitable guide.
[2] In order to appreciate this case, I will first set out the background of this case. This case involves an advocate and solicitor and the Legal Profession Disciplinary Board ('DB'), the disciplinary authority for advocates and solicitors created under the Legal Profession Act 1976 ('the LPA'). This body is a public body created by Parliament to provide adjudicatory service, ie in deciding a complaint against an advocate and solicitor which is conducted by way of disciplinary proceedings. The applicant is an advocate and solicitor. The third respondent who was a former client of the applicant had lodged a complaint against the applicant to the DB. I will not go into the merits of this complaint yet at this stage except to state that this complaint does n
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