A five-man Federal Court bench chaired by justice Abu Samah Nordin has now fixed the matter to be heard on Nov 14.
Abu Samah said the court would also hear on the same day the contempt proceedings brought by the attorney-general against Lingam.
Lingam was absent from court today, and there was also no counsel to represent him.
FMT understands that a lawyer who had been appointed to represent him had pulled out. FMT is awaiting a response from Lingam who is overseas.
However, government lawyer Alice Loke Ying Ching told the bench that Lingam had sent a letter yesterday to request his contempt proceedings be stayed.
“He also wants his review application to be postponed,” she told the bench.
Apart from the review application, Lingam has also applied to disqualify six judges from hearing his case on grounds of bias.
The judges are Suriyadi Halim Omar, Abu Samah, Ramli Ali, Azahar Mohamed, Balia Yusof Wahi and Jeffrey Tan Kok Wha.
Suriyadi retired from office yesterday. All other judges on Lingam’s recusal list were on the bench today.
On Sept 29, a five-man bench chaired by Suriyadi had fixed the contempt case to commence, with or without Lingam’s presence on Nov 8 (today).
Lingam, who was implicated in a judicial fixing case by a royal commission of inquiry in 2007, has been skipping court since 2013 over the contempt charge.
Suriyadi had said the court had also made a finding of fact that Lingam’s medical report from a United States hospital was forged, but the former lawyer claimed the remark by the bench was unfair.
Lingam had appeared for clients, consisting of family members, in a civil suit.
Following a Federal Court decision in 2012 that went against his clients, Lingam filed a review of that decision on grounds that the judgment was plagiarised.
Lingam, the 24 family members and another lawyer, T C Nayagam, were charged with contempt.
The family members and Nayagam pleaded guilty to the charge and were fined.