Kuala Lampur, April 28 -- In "Will AG seek leave of Federal Court to appeal against Court of Appeal's decision?" I referred to the case of Attorney General of Malaysia v Sabah Law Society [2024].

In that case, the High Court had granted the Sabah Law Society (SLS) leave to apply for judicial review of the Federal government's failure to review the amounts payable to Sabah between the years 1974 and 2021 under a Special Grant provided for Sabah under Article 112C read with Article 112D and Section 2 of Part IV of the Tenth Schedule of the Federal Constitution (FC').

SLS's grievance was that a second review of the Special Grant was not made by the end of 1974 as was provided for in Article 112D(4) of the FC.

Instead, on April 20, 2022, t...