Sisters in Islam get to keep their name
KUALA LUMPUR - The High Court here Friday certified an duplicate by SIS Forum (Malaysia) to set upon out an originating court sequence filed by Dewan Pemuda Masjid Malaysia to prohibit a organization from regulating "Sisters in Islam" as a organisation's name as well as identity.
Justice Zabariah Mohd Yusof done a preference in chambers in a presence of lawyers Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, who represented SIS Forum, as well as Mohd Ibrahim Mohd, who represented Dewan Pemuda Masjid Malaysia.
Malik Imtiaz told reporters after that Zabariah done a preference after conference submissions from both parties.
The decider certified a duplicate upon a grounds that a plaintiff, Dewan Pemuda Masjid, had no locus standi, he added.
Meanwhile, Mohd Ibrahim pronounced his client would appeal opposite a decision.
On March 22 this year, Dewan Pemuda Masjid Malaysia filed an originating court sequence for a declaration that SIS Forum's legal name was not Sisters In Islam.
It sought an sequence prohibiting SIS Forum from regulating Sisters In Islam as its name as well as temperament in any pamphlet, correspondence, publication and/or statement whether upon a Internet or print or electronic media until it was legally certified to do so.
The applicant additionally sought an sequence forcing a respondent to remove a name "Sisters In Islam" from a signboard upon a respondent's website, printed materials as well as publications as well as forestall a respondent from distributing printed materials that used a name "Sisters In Islam" until a respondent was legally certified to do so. - Bernama
Justice Zabariah Mohd Yusof done a preference in chambers in a presence of lawyers Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, who represented SIS Forum, as well as Mohd Ibrahim Mohd, who represented Dewan Pemuda Masjid Malaysia.
Malik Imtiaz told reporters after that Zabariah done a preference after conference submissions from both parties.
The decider certified a duplicate upon a grounds that a plaintiff, Dewan Pemuda Masjid, had no locus standi, he added.
Meanwhile, Mohd Ibrahim pronounced his client would appeal opposite a decision.
On March 22 this year, Dewan Pemuda Masjid Malaysia filed an originating court sequence for a declaration that SIS Forum's legal name was not Sisters In Islam.
It sought an sequence prohibiting SIS Forum from regulating Sisters In Islam as its name as well as temperament in any pamphlet, correspondence, publication and/or statement whether upon a Internet or print or electronic media until it was legally certified to do so.
The applicant additionally sought an sequence forcing a respondent to remove a name "Sisters In Islam" from a signboard upon a respondent's website, printed materials as well as publications as well as forestall a respondent from distributing printed materials that used a name "Sisters In Islam" until a respondent was legally certified to do so. - Bernama
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