31.   In mitigation, defence counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said the developer had already built four siltation trap ponds at the time of the offence.

32.   Judge Mohamad K. Abdul Rahman set the date after hearing submissions from defence counsel K. Selladurai and Deputy Public Prosecutor Nordin Hassan.

33.   Judge Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab deferred decision today after hearing submissions from defence counsel Gobind Singh Deo and Deputy Public Prosecutor Shamsul Sulaiman.

34.   Magistrate Amir Affendi Hamzah made the order following an application by defence counsel Karpal Singh as the victim was not present for the hearing today.

35.   Replying to a question by defence counsel Manjeet Singh Dhillon, he said he also could not remember when the instruction was issued.

36.   The appeal was rejected after hearing submissions by defence counsel Collin Sequerah and Deputy Public Prosecutor Kamaruzaman Abdul Jalil.

37.   The court made the ruling after hearing submissions by defence counsel Karpal Singh and Deputy Public Prosecutor Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden.

38.   This will make it easy for the court to assign counsel and at the same time build up a body of experienced defence counsel.

39.   To a question from defence counsel Christopher Fernando, Nasaruddin said he did not know how the incident could have occurred.

40.   For about a year now Williams and Ajayi have been engaged in legal battle over who is the de facto defence counsel of Abiola.