The Court of Appeal found that police breached the constitutional rights of four former Bar Council office-bearers but upheld the dismissal of their false imprisonment claim.PUTRAJAYA: The Malaysian Bar and four former Bar Council office-bearers were awarded a total of RM59,449 in damages after the Court of Appeal found that police breached their constitutional rights by imposing unlawful restrictions on a 2022 march for judicial independence.
In partly allowing the Bar’s appeal, a three-member bench chaired by Justice Choo Kah Sing awarded RM19,449 in special damages to the Bar, and RM10,000 each to former office-bearers Karen Cheah, Ezri Abdul Wahab, B Anand Raj and Murshidah Mustafa.
Justices Faizah Jamaludin and Lim Hock Leng were also on the panel.
