Deputy public prosecutor Mustafa P Kunyalam said the new appeal hearing was fixed during an online proceeding before a deputy registrar.

Lawyer Nur Syahirah Hanapiah represented Najib.

The appeal was supposed to have been heard today but it was vacated as ad hoc prosecutor Gopal Sri Ram was engaged in the 1MDB trial scheduled for the entire week at the High Court.

On July 12 last year, High Court judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah, who is also the 1MDB trial judge, dismissed the application to obtain the documents as premature.

The judge said he did not see how the bank documents, related to the funds received by Zeti’s family, are relevant to the defence’s case.

Sequerah said the documents sought by Najib to question Zeti’s credibility as the then Bank Negara Malaysia governor “amounted to a collateral attack”.

“The defence can confront her (Zeti) when she is called to the witness stand later,” he said.

The court also turned down Najib’s other application to obtain former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner’s mobile phone records, saying the prosecution had made it clear it did not have the documents in its possession.

Najib is standing trial on 25 charges for abuse of power and money laundering over alleged 1MDB funds amounting to RM2.28 billion deposited into his AmBank accounts between February 2011 and December 2014.