Lawyer Americk Sidhu, appearing for A Santamil Selvi, said the date was fixed after a case management before Justice Hue Siew Kheng in chambers.
Meanwhile, counsel Sara Abishegam from the legal firm of Shafee & Co, who represented businessman Deepak Jaikishan, has been given until Nov 6 to file his defence.
Santamil has named Najib, Rosmah, Deepak, Najib’s brothers Mohd Nazim and Johari, lawyers Sunil Abraham ,Cecil Abraham, Arunampalam Mariampillai, and commissioner for oaths Zainal Abidin Muhayat as parties to her action.
“All the defendants with the exception of Deepak have filed their defence, and all have denied the claims made by my client,” Americk said.
Santamil Selvi, who is also acting for the estate of Balasubramaniam, filed the action in August for suffering intentional harm as a result of their exile in India.
She said the defendants had deprived her family of a normal life, and caused them to suffer financial and non-financial losses.
They claim to have suffered trauma and mental anguish caused by the defendants, and to have been deprived of a home in familiar surroundings.
Santamil Selvi, together with her two children, Kishen and Menaga, are seeking damages with interest for losses suffered from July 2008 as a result of their five-year displacement.
Balasubramaniam, who was better known as PI Bala, was previously embroiled in a controversy over his two conflicting statutory declarations (SD) in the high-profile 2006 murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu.
In the present suit, the family said the defendants had caused Balasubramaniam’s second SD to be drafted without his instruction and, further, caused him to sign it under threat and inducement.
He was forced to leave Malaysia for India in a hurry after signing the second SD in July 2008, a day after the first was released.
The second SD dated July 4, 2008, is supposed to have cleared Najib of any involvement in the case.
Balasubramaniam, in the second SD, said he wished to retract the entire contents of his first SD dated July 1, as it had been made under duress.
On July 3, 2008, Balasubramaniam told a packed press conference, organised by PKR, that the contents of the first SD, which implicated Najib and several others in the murder of Altantuya, were true.
Balasubramaniam, a key witness in the Altantuya trial, died of a heart attack on March 15, 2013, weeks after returning from India.
He had worked for political analyst and Najib associate Abdul Razak Baginda, who had hired him to monitor Altantuya before her disappearance.