Attorney-General (AG) Idrus Harun today withdrew his appeal over a High Court decision allowing an interim stay of the Judges’ Ethics Committee’s (JEC) inquiry proceedings against Court of Appeal (COA) judge Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, which was scheduled on Nov 25.

Senior Federal counsel Mohd Sabri Othman informed a three-member Court of Appeal panel led by Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah that the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC), which was representing the appellant (Idrus), was withdrawing its appeal filed on Nov 23 against the decision made by the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Nov 12...