PETALING JAYA: Just a day after the High Court overturned an earlier order, the Coroner’s Court has now allowed lawyers representing the five children accused in connection with the death of 13-year-old Zara Qairina Mahathir to participate as interested parties in the inquest.
Sessions Court Judge Amir Shah Amir Hassan, acting as coroner, noted that the Attorney-General’s Chambers raised no objection to the application, clearing the way for the lawyers’ participation.
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The court also permitted the Sabah Law Society (SLS) to appear as amicus curiae (friend of the court), while granting the Education Ministry a watching brief, New Straits Times reported.