'Main belakang': KJ fails in appeal against Anwar’s suit

The Court of Appeal today dismissed Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin’s appeal against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s defamation suit over a 2008 “main belakang” remark.

A three-person bench chaired by Lee Swee Seng unanimously ruled that there was no appealable error that warrants the bench's intervention.

The other bench members were...