The Kuala Lumpur High Court has fixed five days in July next year for a full trial of former finance minister Lim Guan Eng’s defamation suit against former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

The trial from July 12 to 19 is over an allegation that Lim was involved in the cancellation of the tax-exemption status of Albukhary Foundation.

Lim’s counsel Guok Ngek Seong confirmed...