Legal Challenge to Declare Court Order as Null & Void

'Legal challenge to declare court order which barred Bersih activists and public from Monday Parliament null and void

I have filed an application in the Kuala Lumpur High Court to challenge the legality of the court order obtained by the police barring Bersih activists and the public from Parliament on Monday, 11th December 2007 as null and void.

Karpal Singh is assisted by M. Kulasegaran in preparing the writ of summons in the case Lim Kit Siang vs OCPD Sentul, Inspector-General of Police and the Malaysian Government. My statement of claim, filed with the Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday, follows:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM

1. The plaintiff is a Malaysian citizen of age and at all material times, Opposition leader, Dewan Rakyat and Member of Parliament (Ipoh Timur).

2. The first defendant is the OCPD, Sentul.

3. The second defendant is the Inspector General of Police.

4. The third defendant is the Government of Malaysia and the plaintiff pleads that at all material times, the first and second defendants were the agents and/or servants of the third defendant which is vicariously liable for the acts and/or omissions of the first and second defendants.

5. The plaintiff pleads that at the commencement of the 11th Parliament in May 2004, the following motion was unanimously approved by the Dewan Rakyat:-

"Bahawa Majlis ini memerintahkan Ketua Polis Negara menjaga supaya selama Penggal Dewan Rakyat yang ada sekarang, jalan-jalan melalui lorong-lorong menuju ke Dewan ini hendaklah senantiasa terbuka dan boleh dilalui dan jangan ada apa-apa halangan menghalang ahli-ahli hendak pergi dan balik dari Dewan ini, jangan berlaku apa-apa kacau-bilau di jalan-jalan menuju ke Dewan ini, dan supaya jangan ada huru-hara di Bangunan Dewan ini dan berhampiran dengan bangunan ini; dan Setiausaha Dewan Rakyat hendaklah menyampaikan perintah ini kepada Ketua Polis Negara yang tersebut itu." ('the said directive of the Dewan Rakyat')

6. The plaintiff pleads by the said directive of the Dewan Rakyat, the second defendant was required by law to ensure, inter alia, all police personnel in his command were prohibited from in any way causing a disturbance within the precincts of the Dewan Rakyat.

Read more:
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2007/12/13/legal-challenge-to-declare-court-order...

- YB Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Opposition Leader & DAP MP for Ipoh Timur.

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12th December 2007 - Kuala Lumpur High Court.

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