High Court judge Justice Mohd Zaki Abdul Wahab ruled in chambers to maintain the temporary order against Pua until the disposal of the lawsuit.

The judge said there were serious issues that needed to be preserved for the integrity of the trial,” Najib’s lawyer Hafarizam Harun told reporters.

The case is fixed for case management on Sept 13.

Pua was represented by lawyer Tan Cheng Leong.

Hafarizam said the extension of the injunction until the case was disposed of meant the DAP MP was barred from repeating the contents of the video.

The video had been removed from Pua’s Facebook on April 24 following the court order.

Najib, in his statement of claim, said the two-minute 21-second video, entitled “BN abandons all Bills to give precedence to PAS RUU355 Private Member’s Bill”, was uploaded on Pua’s Facebook page.

Najib said the live video was directed at him and was done with malice and bad intention to defame him.

He is seeking from Pua an unconditional written apology to be published in at least two newspapers.

This is the second lawsuit by Najib against Pua, the DAP national publicity chief.

Najib sued him for defamation in March 2015 over his speech on the 1MDB issue made at a DAP fund-raising dinner in November 2014.

Also named as respondent in that lawsuit was MediaRakyat portal owner Chan Chee Kong.

Pua, on the other hand, has a pending lawsuit against Najib for alleged abuse of the latter’s public office pertaining to 1MDB funds.

The suit was filed earlier this year in his capacity as a taxpayer.

He is seeking a court declaration that Najib had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office and had abused his office to personally profit from the funds.