THE judicial review seeking to enforce Sabah’s constitutional entitlement to 40% of federal revenue collected from the state will be heard in the High Court here on 7 July.
Senior Sabah lawyer Datuk Roger Chin said a public townhall session hosted by the Sabah Law Society (SLS) was being scheduled for June 20 to explain the background and legal framework of the case ahead of the hearing.
“This is not a political issue. It is a constitutional obligation that has gone unfulfilled for far too long,” he said.
The case was filed by the SLS in 2022. It alleges that the federal government failed to carry out a mandatory review of the special grant owed to Sabah under Article 112C and the Part IV of the Tenth Schedule of the Federal Constitution.
The review was due by 1974 but did not take place until 2022 — nearly five decades later.
The Second Review Order