PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has fixed June 7 for case management in the appeal by single mother Loh Siew Hong, who is seeking to challenge the unilateral conversion of her three children to Islam by her ex-husband.
Lawyer J. Gunamalar, who represented Loh, confirmed the date when contacted here on Wednesday (May 24).
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"We are expediting the process of the record of appeal,” she said.
The appeal proceedings came up for case management before Court of Appeal deputy registrar Mariam Hasanah Othman.
Loh is appealing against the High Court’s dismissal of her judicial review application to challenge the conversion of her three children without her consent.
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On May 11, Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Justice Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh ruled that Loh's children remained Muslims as they continued to profess Islam even after she gained custody of them.
Loh, 35, had first filed for leave to initiate a judicial review application on March 25 last year, and named the Perlis state Registrar of Converts, Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council, Perlis Mufti Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin and the Perlis state government as the first to fourth respondents.
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The single mother is seeking a declaration that her three children, two twin daughters and a son, are Hindus and her ex-husband, M. Nagahswaran, did not have the legal capacity to allow the Perlis state Registrar of Converts to register their children as converts without her consent.
She sought a declaration that her three children, as minors, do not have the legal capacity to convert to Islam without her consent.
On Aug 1, she successfully obtained the leave sought from the High Court as Justice Wan Ahmad Farid said her application had merit and that she had established an arguable case.
