PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Razak's 11th-hour move to change his legal team before the final appeal in the SRC International trial had frustrated his own case, the prosecution says.
Lead prosecutor Datuk V. Sithambaram said while it was his right to change lawyers, the new counsel must be ready to take on the case with the dates already fixed by the court."If not for the appellant's attempt in changing horses, we would not be here today," the prosecutor told a five-judge panel headed by Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Justice Abdul Rahman Sebli at the Federal Court here on Monday .
Najib had earlier discharged his long-time law firm Messrs Shafee & Co and replaced it with Messrs Zaid Ibrahim Suflan TH Liew & Partners .The five-judge panel, chaired by Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, however gave a firm"no" to the request. In his submission last week, Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah submitted that Hisyam said he had misjudged the timing and it was not Najib's fault.
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