Ikhwan Hafiz Jamaluddin, 35, and Nur Anis Jamaluddin, 37, had sought leave to appeal against the decisions of the High Court and Court of Appeal, which had ruled in favour of their grandmother Aminah Abdullah to include three million Rantai Wawasan shares in the list.

In a split decision, a three-member Federal Court panel comprising Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Abdul Rahman Sebli and Justices Nallini Pathmanathan and Rhodzariah Bujang dismissed the children’s application.

Rahman and Rhodzariah were in the majority, while Nallini dissented.

In the majority decision delivered online, Rahman said the application for leave to appeal was dismissed because the two questions of law that the children wanted the court to determine involved concurrent findings of facts by the lower courts.

He also said the children’s application failed to meet the threshold requirement of Section 96 of the Courts of Judicature Act 1964.

Nallini dissented, saying leave ought to be granted as there were no concurrent findings of facts by the lower courts.

On Jan 3, 2019, Aminah, 88, sued her grandchildren, claiming that the shares of three companies – the Rantai Wawasan shares, six million Alpine Motion shares worth RM233 million and two Ivory Insights shares worth RM80 million – should be considered as part of her son’s estate.

On Aug 13, 2021, Aminah partly won her suit in the High Court to include the three million shares in Rantai Wawasan in the list of her son’s estate.

The High Court, however, ruled against Aminah in respect of the shares of the other two companies.

The Court of Appeal, on Aug 19, last year, dismissed both the appeals by the children and Aminah, and upheld the High Court’s decision.

Ikhwan and Nur Anis subsequently filed for leave to appeal to the Federal Court against the court decisions in respect of the Rantai Wawasan shares.

Aminah, however, did not seek leave to appeal against the court decisions relating to the Alpine Motion and Ivory Insights shares.

Lawyers Saheran Suhendran, Frank Wong and Rodney Gan represented Ikhwan Hafiz and Nur Anis, while counsel Zainur Zakaria, Pawancheek Marican and Suzilawati Ismail appeared for Aminah.

Jamaluddin, better known as JJ, a former science, technology and innovation minister, was killed in a helicopter crash while travelling from Pekan, Pahang to Kuala Lumpur.