The High Court in Kuala Lumpur this morning dismissed the leave application by Muhammad Shafee Abdullah to mount a counterclaim against the government over the allegation that the RM9.41 million tax suit against him was made out of bad faith.

This came when the civil court ruled that the Special Commissioners of Income Tax (SCIT) is the proper forum to raise the allegation that MACC and the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) cooked up the malicious RM9.41 million tax calculation against the veteran lawyer...