Sangeet Kaur Deo vs Chief Justice of The Federal Court of Malaysia

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2025 MarsdenLR 6810

Sangeet Kaur Deo – Appellant
Versus
Chief Justice of The Federal Court of Malaysia – Respondent

Table of Content
1. failure of chief justice in duty (Para 1)
2. chronology of karpal singh's case (Para 2)
3. applicant's withdrawal of application (Para 3)
4. discretion of court in declaratory relief (Para 4 , 5)
5. conditions for granting declarations (Para 7 , 8 , 14)
6. declaratory order rendered academic (Para 10 , 11 , 12)
7. court dismisses the application (Para 13)

JUDGEMENT

(Enclosure 1)

Introduction

[1]The present application before me by way of Originating Summons was filed on 14.1.2019 by the Applicant for purposes of seeking the following orders:

a.A Declaration that the Honourable Chief Justice of Malaysia, has failed in his constitutional and / or statutory and / or express and / or implied duty as the head of the Malaysian Judiciary to defend and preserve the integrity of the Malaysian Judiciary when he failed to conduct internal and / or complete investigations and make a decision / finding in relation to the said investigations, in relation to public allegations of judicial interference within the Judiciary in the following cases :

i.in the Karpal Singh Sedition Court of Appeal appeal, as alleged by lawyer Haniff Khatri and widely publicised by Free Malaysia Today on 22^nd Au

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2025 MarsdenLR 6810

Sangeet Kaur Deo – AppellantVersusChief Justice of The Federal Court of Malaysia – Respondent

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Sangeet Kaur Deo – Appellant
Versus
Chief Justice of The Federal Court of Malaysia – Respondent