PETALING JAYA: One of the lawyers acting for Catholic newspaper Herald had an early morning shock when he found his law firm broken into.

It is learnt that an employee alerted the lawyer, Derek Fernandez, at 7.45am when the former reported for work.

KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court today allowed a stay of an earlier order to allow the use of "Allah" by Catholic weekly, Herald, following consent by the Home Ministry and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Malaysia on the grounds of national interest.

Justice Datuk Lau Bee Lan, who had issued the earlier order on Dec 31 last year, made the ruling in chambers after meeting Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail and counsel Derek J. Fernandez for Archbishop Tan Sri Murphy Pakiam for 30 minutes.

Fernandez told reporters that Lau agreed to record the stay by consent.

 

IF you get a summons from the Petaling Jaya City Council, don’t do the unthinkable by throwing it away.

 

You may find the Attorney-General’s Chambers breathing down your neck instead of the city council.

“The council has all along been prosecuting summons defaulters not under its name, but the AG’s,” said councillor Derek Fernandez.

 

SELANGOR Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim did no wrong when he declassified the Bukit Antarabangsa report on Wednesday.

This was the view of lawyer Derek Fernandez (pic) who said Khalid acted within his powers.