Kuala Lampur, Aug. 16 -- In "If Anwar's constitutional questions are preposterous, absurd and legal nonsense, let the court say it" I wrote that if the constitutional questions proposed to be referred by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim for a ruling by the Federal Court were preposterous, absurd and legal nonsense, let the court having the ultimate authority say it.

The constitutional questions were

proposed in the civil action commenced by Yusoff Rawther against Anwar in the latter's personal capacity.

The civil action was up for trial - the action having been filed at the High Court in July 2021, prior to Anwar's appointment as the Prime Minister in November 2022 with the trial having been fixed on June 6, 2025 - but Anwar, by an applica...