THE Court of Appeal has fixed for July 31 the case management for single mother Loh Siew Hong’s appeal to nullify the unilateral conversion of her three children to Islam.

The court’s deputy registrar Mariam Hasanah Othman set the date to update the status of the appeal records.

When contacted by Bernama, Loh’s lawyer A. Srimurugan, who attended the case management proceedings, said he informed the deputy registrar he was still waiting for the High Court’s grounds of judgment.

Loh’s appeal came up for case management before Mariam today.

Also present at the proceedings were lawyer Danial Farhan Zainul Rijal, representing the Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council, and Ainul Wardah Shahidan, who is assistant legal adviser for Perlis Mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin, the Perlis government and the Perlis Registrar of Converts.

The 36-year-old woman is appealing against the High Court’s decision on May 11 to dismiss her judicial review bid to challenge the conversion of her three children to Islam by her Muslim-convert ex-husband without her consent.

Loh filed the application on March 25 last year, naming the Perlis Registrar of Converts, Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council, Asri and the Perlis government as respondents.

She is seeking a declaration that her three children are Hindus and that her ex-husband M. Nagahswaran did not have the legal capacity to allow the Perlis Registrar of Converts to register their children as converts without her consent.

She is also seeking a declaration that her children do not have the legal capacity to convert to Islam without her consent, and a certiorari order to revoke the Declaration of Conversion to Islam, dated July 7, 2020, issued by the Perlis Registrar of Converts for her three children. – Bernama, June 22, 2023.