Thursday 14 May 2015

Baram dam: Hearing of government's application to strike out suit by plaintiffs postponed for 11th time



By James Luhat Ngau
MIRI, May 14, 2015 - The Miri High Court  today postponed to June 16 this year the hearing of an application by the Minister of Resource  Planning and Environment and State Government to strike  out a civil suit  filed by a group of villagers from Ulu Baram challenging the move by the state to extinguish their customary rights over their traditional land.

Judge Lee Heng Cheong postponed the hearing of the application after hearing submissions from counsels for the respondents and the plaintiffs.