Lawyer Rosli Dahlan said a certificate of urgency was filed together with the application to obtain leave for the review.
“We are told that the court is having difficulty in internally determining who can hear the matter,” he told FMT.
In its latest application, the opposition party is seeking a court order to quash the RoS’ decision on April 5, claiming it had misused Section 14(5) of the Societies Act.
PPBM also wants a court injunction to stop the RoS from taking further action under the act to fully cancel its registration.
In addition, it seeks to compel the RoS to provide answers as to which provisions of the act it had breached to warrant the one-month suspension.
PPBM secretary-general Shahruddin Md Salleh, who affirmed an affidavit in support of the review application, said the decision of RoS director-general Surayati Ibrahim to provisionally deregister the party was made in bad faith.
At a press conference on April 5, Surayati said the RoS had provisionally deregistered PPBM as those managing the party had failed to provide all relevant documents needed by the RoS within a stipulated time frame.
On the same day, the party filed a leave application for a review but on April 11, Justice Kamaludin Md Said dismissed the suit on grounds that the RoS’ provisional deregistration had become academic.
In his judgment, Kamaludin said the application by PPBM had become academic since it was filed after the RoS issued the provisional order against the party on April 5.
“In the present application, the relief sought is to stop or prohibit the respondent (RoS) from issuing the Provisional Order under Section 14 (5).”
Kamaludin also said the applicant was not left without remedy and could still file a judicial review to challenge the provisional order.