Federal Court to hear appeal over ‘bin Abdullah’ ruling


The Federal Court will decide on the issue of whether the director-general of NRD must replace a child’s surname ‘Abdullah’ with the father’s name in the birth certificate. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, September 8, 2017.

THE Federal Court is to hear and decide on the legal questions arising from whether a Muslim child conceived out of wedlock can take his or her father’s surname instead of “Abdullah”.

Chief Justice Md Raus Sharif, chairing a Federal Court three-man bench, today granted leave to the National Registration Department (NRD), its director-general and the government of Malaysia to appeal against an appellate court ruling allowing a Muslim child conceived out of wedlock to carry the father’s surname.


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