THE Shah Alam High Court has struck out the Selangor government’s application to postpone its scheduled appearance at a local enquiry on the Selangor redelineation exercise held by Election Commission (EC) today.

Judge Azimah Omar in her decision in chambers said there was no merit in the application to allow a stay on the injunction.

The decision means that the EC public enquiry will proceed as usual without representatives from the Selangor state government present.

The Selangor government’s lawyer, Ambiga Sreenevasan, said they have made an oral application for an Erinford injunction or a stay on the decision pending appeal.

“The judge asked us to make a formal application, so we will be putting a formal application for an Erinford injunction.

“That’s what my instructions are so far,” said Ambiga who appeared together with lawyer Lim Wei Jiet during the hearing in chambers at 9.45am.

In its application, the state government stated it was only given six working days’ notice to appear in the EC hearing and only 30 minutes to present its case without legal representation.

It claims this was a breach to its constitutional right to be properly heard on the proposed recommendation.

Instead, the state government had asked for two weeks to prepare their presentation and a three-hour session with the EC along with the attendance of legal representatives.

The EC was represented by lawyers Amarjeet Singh and Alice Loke.

Amarjeet said the local public enquiry held by EC at the Concorde Hotel today will proceed as usual.

Last month, the state government lost its bid for a judicial review to declare the redelineation exercise unconstitutional. – January 8, 2018.