The Court of Appeal in Putrajaya today ordered businessman JR Deepak Jaikishan, his brother and their company to pay RM40,000 in total costs as a result of their lawyers discharging themselves from representing them in the appeals over a lawsuit filed against Najib Abdul Razak and his wife and three others.

A three-member bench led by Justice Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah awarded costs of RM10,000 to each respondent considering that the change of lawyers was made...