Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown has failed in her bid to get the Federal Court to look into the validity of the criminal defamation provision used against her.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled that it was "premature" to refer her constitutional questions to the Federal Court before deciding on her application to transfer her criminal defamation case from the lower court in Kuala Terengganu to the Kuala Lumpur High Court...