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  "id": 1855616,
  "title": "Judge warns litigants against using recusal bids to stall trials",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/judge-warns-litigants-against-using-recusal-bids-to-stall-trials-1855616",
  "topic": "world",
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  "published": "2026-08-19T02:42:22.000Z",
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  "summary": "Justice Leong Wai Hong dismisses defendants’ applications in Brainlab suits and orders lawyers to personally bear RM1.3 million in costs.",
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