KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 — Judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah will decide tomorrow whether to remove himself as the trial judge for former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s...
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 — Judge Datuk Collin Lawrence Sequerah will decide tomorrow whether to remove himself as the trial judge for former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1Malaysia Development Berhad trial, after it emerged that 1MDB’s former in-house lawyer Jasmine Loo had worked in the same law firm as him more than a decade ago.
Loo was a legal assistant in the same law firm from January 1998 to December 31, 2003, and became a partner from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008. Shafee argued that Sequerah should have disclosed his previous work ties with Loo at the start of this trial and especially after her name was first mentioned in this trial by prosecution witnesses, claiming that their working in the same law firm gives rise to a conflict of interest as the judge would have to decide on matters such as whether Loo is a credible witness.
Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor arrives for her husband, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1MDB trial at the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex on August 17, 2023. — Picture by Sayuti Zainudin Kamal Baharin argued that the timing of Sequerah’s disclosure on July 27 of his past employment history with Loo being in the same law firm was right and acceptable in law, as this was due to a change in circumstances. The prospects of Loo potentially becoming a witness in the 1MDB trial only arose recently, as she had previously been a fugitive who was away from Malaysia throughout the years the trial was conducted.
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