According to the lawyer, there are phases to a bankruptcy process that a person must go through before being declared bankrupt. Until this declaration is made by the court, Najib is still the rightful Pekan MP, he added. “Once an MP is declared bankrupt (by the court), only a Speaker can declare the seat vacant,” Mohamed Haniff said. A summary judgment is when the court decides a particular case summarily, without calling witnesses to testify in a trial. Najib is appealing against the High Court's decision on the July 22 summary judgment and the appeal would be heard at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday (June 16).

Source: The Star June 15, 2021 09:18 UTC