A senior federal counsel representing the police and the government told the Federal Court today that the families of A Kugan and Abdul Jaffar Abdul Mutalib are not entitled to receive exemplary damages.

This is because Section 8(2) of the Civil Law Act bars the estate of the deceased from seeking such compensation, senior federal counsel Alice Loke argued.

She added that the High Court and Court of Appeal had erred in granting exemplary damages to the two families.