COMMENT | The learned high court judge, Alice Loke Yee Ching, recently refused to grant leave for a convicted criminal - Najib Razak - to pursue a contempt proceeding against former attorney-general Ahmad Terrirudin Salleh for allegedly suppressing a copy of the royal addendum order.

In dismissing the bid, she, inter alia, held that Najib failed to establish any prima facie to warrant a leave, and she also outlined three reasons in fortifying her ruling, which included...