unilateral conversion

High Court judge says MAIPs failed to show that it was an interested party in relation to the children of Loh Siew Hong.

Federal Court panel rules that the question of administrative law in the matter is identical to that of the Indira Gandhi case.

She is seeking a declaration that her three children are Hindus and that her ex-husband did not have the legal capacity to allow the Perlis religious authorities to register them as converts without her consent.

The High Court rules that civil courts cannot determine such cases as they are within the jurisdiction of the shariah courts.

Many of Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin's comments do not hold water.

A three-man bench says the High Court and Court of Appeal were right to follow the Federal Court decision in the Indira Gandhi case.

Its lawyer says a similar case on unilateral conversion will be heard before the Federal Court tomorrow.

The Court of Appeal says it is bound by the decision by the Federal Court in the case of kindergarten teacher M Indira Gandhi.