KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court today granted Zaid Ibrahim’s application to obtain documents for his civil action against his former law firm partners.
Judge Akhtar Tahir delivered his decision during a Zoom hearing. He had previously heard arguments from lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, representing Zaid, and Tommy Thomas, appearing for the law firm Zaid Ibrahim & Co (ZICO).
The court also awarded RM3,000 cost to Zaid.
Zaid, who is a former minister, had in December last year filed an application for his former partners – Chew Seng Kok and Nik Norzrul Thani Nik Hassan Thani – and Singapore-based ZICO Holdings Inc to disclose documents in their possession to enable him to formulate and plead his action in contract, tort or breach of trust.
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He said that when he left ZICO in 2008 to take up his appointment as a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of legal affairs, he did not take any documents with him.
Zaid also filed a lawsuit against Chew and Nik Norzrul to stop them from using the ZICO name in their practice.-FMT