KUALA LUMPUR: Independent MP for Wangsa Maju Wee Choo Keong says lawyers filing defamation suits should not be specifying any amount in their claims, and that the Bar Council should speak up on the matter.
In a March 27 posting in his blog, Wee highlighted the “emerging trend for litigants to file mega suits for defamation where general damages have been quantified by their lawyer up to the tune of RM100 million or more”.
A lawyer by training himself, Wee questioned not only whether such high claims for damages were ethical but whether they were even permitted by the Rules of Court 2012.