PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli and Media Rakyat owner Chan Chee Kong today obtained leave from the Federal Court to challenge the decision to strike out several paragraphs on fair comment in their defence.

This is in relation to a defamation suit filed by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor over a jibe made by Rafizi, who is also Pandan MP, at a 2014 forum on petrol subsidies, a video of which was uploaded by Chan on social media.

Chief Justice of Sabah and Sarawak Richard Malanjum, who headed the three-member bench in the Federal Court, allowed four novel questions regarding the defence of fair comment to be posed by Rafizi and Chan's lawyers, who were led by Razlan Hadri Zulkifli...