00:00The federal court today dismissed former PERA Executive Counselor Paul Young's application for leave to review an earlier Apex Court decision that upheld his conviction for raping his Indonesian maid.
00:12A three-judge panel, led by Chief Judge of Malaya Hashim Hamza, sitting with Justices Colin Lawrence-Sakira and Nazan Ghazali, ruled that Young had failed to meet the stringent threshold under Rule 137 of the Rules of the Federal Court in 1995.
00:25Rule 137 concerns the federal court's inherent power to review its own decisions to prevent injustice or abuse of process.
00:34Delivering the ruling, Hashim said Young had relied on an alleged breach of natural justice, arguing that he was not given the opportunity to make submissions on the court's intention to depart from established authorities.
00:46Young is serving an eight-year jail term and facing two strokes of the cane after the federal court in October last year dismissed his final appeal against his conviction.
00:57Young was convicted by the High Court on July 22, 2022, of raping the 23-year-old woman at his home in Ipo between 8.15pm and 9.15pm on July 7, 2019.
01:08Donny Sharjah Reza, FMT.
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