Federal Court has set Aug 10 to hear an appeal by King’s Counsel Jonathan Laidlaw to act for Najib Abdul Razak in the former prime minister’s RM42 million SRC International case.

This is despite the court on March 31 earlier this year having dismissed the former finance minister’s application to review a decision by a different bench of the Federal Court to uphold his conviction and 12-year jail sentence in the RM42 million SRC International corruption case...