Judges have wide discretion to write their grounds of judgment either in the national language Bahasa Malaysia or English. <br /> <br />In delivering the ruling today, the Federal Court also dismissed Anwar Ibrahim's preliminary objection to a Court of Appeal judgment over a defamation suit he had filed in 2006 against Dr Mahathir Mohamad because it was in English. The appellate court judgment was however written in English. <br /> <br /> <br />More in Malaysiakini.com
