PUTRAJAYA, April 8 -- The Court of Appeal has dismissed a preliminary objection by the attorney-general's chambers, ruling that the Malaysian Bar's appeal for leave to challenge the AG's decision to secure a discharge for Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi from his corruption case will proceed.

Senior federal counsel Ahmad Hanir Hambaly had raised the objection, noting that the Bar filed a separate application yesterday seeking leave to commence judicial review of the AG's subsequent decision to take no further action in Zahid's case.

Justice Faizah Jamaludin, delivering a unanimous ruling with Justices Lim Hock Leng and Nadzrin Wok Nordin, said the AG's no further action decision, made in January this year, was a separ...