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.
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