The High Court in Kuching today ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit filed by the sons of the late Abdul Taib Mahmud, Sarawak’s seventh governor, against their stepmother, Raghad Kurdi Taib.

Judge Alexander Siew How Wai delivered the ruling after dismissing preliminary objections raised by Raghad (above) and the second defendant, RHB Investment Bank Berhad, who contended that the matter...