The motion tabled by Tommy Thomas against Muhammad Shafee Abdullah at the Malaysian Bar annual general meeting in 2015 was a result of Shafee's own actions, the Court of Appeal heard today.

Thomas' lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasan in her submission said one has to bear in mind that Shafee was an ad hoc prosecutor in Anwar Ibrahim's case.

Ambiga was submitting in Shafee's appeal on his defamation suit against Tommy, former Court of Appeal judge VC George, the Malaysian Bar and its then-president Christopher Leong for tabling the motion at the AGM...