The Court of Appeal has relied on an older set of precedents in its judgment on DAP lawmaker Tony Pua's case that there are no absolute rights in the Federal Constitution, including the right to travel abroad, a lawyer said at a forum.

Malaysian Bar's constitutional law committee co-chairperson Surendra Ananth added that the issue of the right to travel has been contested in court since the 1970s.

"To say that the Court of Appeal's ruling was wrong would be too much.

"But what I can say is that the Court of Appeal had taken a very regressive approach," he told a forum on travel ban held at Malaysiakini's office in Petaling Jaya...