Najib Abdul Razak has failed again to recuse former federal court judge Gopal Sri Ram from prosecuting the former prime minister’s 1MDB-linked court cases.

Today’s three-person Court of Appeal bench, chaired by judge Yaacob Md Sam and also comprised judges Lee Heng Cheong and Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali, unanimously dismissed Najib’s appeal to disqualify ad-hoc deputy public prosecutor Sri Ram.

The bench ruled that...