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KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court registry has been given a fortnight to complete typing the notes of evidence of the case involving Tenaganita director Irene Fernandez.

Only after the documents are ready can her appeal be heard in the High Court.

The appeal was fixed for mention yesterday but had to be postponed again as the typewritten notes had not been completed.

The testimonies of four witnesses, out of 35 prosecution and 21 defence witnesses, were initially missing from the records of appeal, but were traced in June.

Judge Datuk Mohamed Apandi Ali yesterday gave the registry two weeks more to finalise the records.

He met both the prosecution and defence in chambers and fixed Sept 25 for mention. The judge maintained the trial dates from Oct 28 to 30, as set earlier.

Fernandez was sentenced to 12 months' jail in 2003, seven years after she claimed trial to publishing with malicious intent a memorandum which contained false news.

She was found guilty of publishing the memo, entitled "Abuse, torture and dehumanised treatment of migrant workers at detention camps", at the Tenaganita office in Jalan Masjid India here on Aug 25, 1995.

Fernandez, who appealed against the sentence, is currently out on bail.

The appeal, which was supposed to have been heard in April, was put on hold when a portion of the notes of the proceedings from the magistrate's court went missing from the appeal records.

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