Dr Ting remains as Pujut rep, Court of Appeal upholds ruling


  • Nation
  • Friday, 13 Jul 2018

KUCHING: The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision that the Sarawak Legislative Assembly's disqualification of DAP's Pujut assemblyman Dr Ting Tiong Choon over his Australian citizenship was unlawful.

In a majority decision delivered Friday (July 13) from submissions filed last October, the Court of Appeal ruled that the state assembly had no jurisdiction to disqualify Dr Ting as he acquired Australian citizenship, which he subsequently renounced, before he was elected in the May 2016 state election.

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