Court delays hearing bid to withdraw suit on vernacular schools’ right to exist


A lawyer has changed his mind about challenging the constitutionality of vernacular schools now that other Malay rights groups have taken up the fight in court. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, October 21, 2020.

THE Kuala Lumpur High Court today set November 2 for case management of an application to withdraw a suit to declare vernacular schools unconstitutional.

Lawyer Abdul Rahim Sinwan, representing Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz, said the hearing set for today was postponed due to the conditional movement control order in effect in Selangor, Putrajaya and Kuala Lumpur.


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