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Letters | Malaysia’s Najib Razak should accept the finality of court decisions
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Following his failed bid to quash his corruption conviction related to a former unit of scandal-tainted state fund 1MDB, former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak should accept that he has exhausted all legal remedies for his dispute.
Yet, there are murmurs that Najib may mount another bid for a case review.
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As it is, Najib failed in his application to have the Federal Court review its own decision. Under Rule 137 of the Rules of the Federal Court 1995, Malaysia’s apex court may exercise its inherent power to revisit its decisions.
But when can Rule 137 be invoked? The short answer is that it may be invoked only in cases where a procedural injustice has been occasioned.
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In a 2008 judgment, Zaki Azmi, then president of the Court of Appeal, laid out the exceptional cases where the rule could be invoked.
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