SN Nair, the lawyer for the family of Ivana Smit, said the hearing dates were fixed during a case management before judicial commissioner Roz Mawar Rozain.

The trial has been fixed for Oct 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29 and 30 and will continue on Nov 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20.

Smit, who was 18 at the time, was found dead on the sixth floor of CapSquare Residence here on Dec 7, 2017, after falling from a unit on the 20th floor owned by American couple Alex Johnson and Luna Almazkyzy.

An inquest was held in 2018 to determine the cause of death, and the coroner returned a “misadventure” verdict.

Upon revision by the High Court, Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah ruled that Smit’s death was caused by “persons known or unknown”.

Her mother, Christina Carolina Gerarda Johanna Verstappen, filed the lawsuit on the family’s behalf in 2020, naming the government, the police and investigating officer Faizal Abdullah as defendants.

She claimed they had failed to determine the cause of Smit’s death.

The government previously sought to quash the family’s lawsuit on grounds that it was akin to directing the conduct of the police investigation.

However, the court rejected the striking out bid last December.