KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — The High Court today rejected a bid by the teenager acquitted of murdering his schoolmate Yap Shing Xuen at a Bandar Utama secondary school last year to have the entire civil suit heard in-camera, or in closed-door proceedings.
Judicial Commissioner Datuk Anand Ponnudurai said there was no basis for the broader order sought by the teenager, through his counsel, to hold the entire proceedings in-camera, excluding members of the media and anyone not directly involved in the case.
Anand said the court could not determine at this stage which witnesses would testify or the nature of their evidence, adding that the defendants could later apply for specific witnesses to testify in-camera if their evidence was likely to identify the teenager.
