The date was fixed after a case management proceeding before Court of Appeal deputy registrar Tan Chai Wei via a Zoom video conference today.

When contacted, Sam’s counsel Harvinderjit Singh said the deputy registrar set Aug 29 for further case management as the record of appeal was not ready.

On April 18 this year, the Court of Appeal granted leave to Sam to appeal against her six-year jail sentence and RM6,000 fine imposed by the Johor Bahru High Court.

The Court of Appeal had also allowed Sam’s application to stay the execution of the jail sentence and fine imposed by the Johor Bahru High Court and also released her on bail of RM10,000 in one surety, pending the hearing of her appeal.

On April 13, High Court judge Abu Bakar Katar meted out the jail sentence and fine against Sam after allowing the prosecution’s appeal to set aside the decision of the magistrates’ court on Oct 10 last year to acquit and discharge the clerk.

He also ordered Sam to be jailed for six months if she failed to pay the fine and imposed a three-year driving ban upon completion of her prison term.

Sam, who was 22 years old at the time of the incident, was charged with committing the offence at Jalan Lingkaran Dalam, Johor Bahru, at 3.20am on Feb 18, 2017.

The eight killed in the incident were Azrie Danish Zulkefli, 14; Shahrul Izzwan Azzuraimie, 14; Firdauz Danish Mohd Azhar, 16; Fauzan Halmijan, 13; Azhar Amir, 16; Harith Iskandar Abdullah, 14; Shahrul Nizam Marudin, 14, and Haizad Kasrin, 16.