A Queen’s Counsel (QC) from the United Kingdom can help “evolve and mature” Malaysian jurisprudence, according to former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak’s legal team.

Lead counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (above), in an affidavit to support a bid for QC Jonathan Laidlaw to represent Najib in his appeal in the RM42 million SRC International corruption case, said this is because the matter involves “several novel points which had never been decided by Malaysian courts”.

Shafee contended that trial judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali...