{
  "id": 4061293,
  "title": "Rayuan jenayah boleh dibatalkan, dikembalikan semula",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/rayuan-jenayah-boleh-dibatalkan-dikembalikan-semula-4061293",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-28T23:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/08/29/rayuan-jenayah-boleh-dibatalkan-dikembalikan-semula"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The High Court of Appeals has ruled that certain criminal appeals can be cancelled and reinstated. Putrajaya: The High Court of Appeals has determined it has the power to cancel criminal appeals filed by the Prosecution when the accused is unable to be served with the appeal notice or the notice cannot be delivered to them. However, the court has stated that the accused can request the appeal be returned to the list for future consideration. A panel of three judges voted that the court has the authority to do this under Rule 105 of the Court of Appeals Procedures 1994, which maintains the court's existing power to prevent abuse of process. In his 28-page judgment, Judge Wong Kian Kheong wrote that cancelling an appeal from being heard by the court constitutes an abuse of process. The decision was made in relation to two separate criminal appeals filed by the Prosecution. Also present were Judges Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz and K Muniandy. In the first appeal, the accused failed to deliver the appeal notice to Nor Khairi Nosoha, one of two defendants in the case, despite being instructed to do so several times. In the second appeal, only one of four defendants attended the court when the appeal was scheduled to be heard on April 10. Arrest warrants were issued for two other defendants while the appeal notice could not be delivered to another. The appeal was finally cancelled on June 18 after the case went through nine rounds of review. Wong stated that the Prosecution can request that both appeals be reinstated under Rule 105 which is read together with Rule 1A, which requires the court to act in a way that prevents injustice. He explained that the appeal cannot be reinstated because the merit of the appeal has not been considered by the court. According to him, there is no time limit that prevents a criminal appeal from being reinstated for consideration. The court also ruled that the Prosecution cannot challenge the cancellation order at the Federal Court as the order did not decide the substantive rights of all parties.",
  "summary": "Panel tiga hakim memutuskan rayuan yang tidak dapat diteruskan boleh dikeluarkan daripada senarai mahkamah apabila tertuduh gagal dikesan atau notis tidak dapat disampaikan.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Rayuan jenayah boleh dibatalkan, dikembalikan semula",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/rayuan-jenayah-boleh-dibatalkan-dikembalikan-semula",
        "published": "2026-08-28T23:30:00.000Z"
      }
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}