KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 — The High Court today granted the Kelantan Government a stay of the hearing of its suit against Petroliam Nasional Berhad or Petronas for alleged breach of contract over oil royalty, pending an appeal at the Court of Appeal.

Lawyer S. Sitpah, who acted for the state government told reporters that high court judge Datuk Rosnaini Saub allowed the stay, pending appeal which was fixed on Dec 7.

The state government is appealing against the high court’s dismissal of its application to include 14 questions of law in the hearing of the suit.

The court had initially fixed two days beginning Nov 23, to hear the suit.

On July 2 last year, the Federal Court ordered the suit to be remitted to the Kuala Lumpur High Court for disposal, by way of determining the points of law without a full trial under Order 14A of the Rules of Courts 2012.

In the ruling, the five-member panel of the Federal Court judges led by Tan Sri Abdull Hamid Embong said there was no dispute of facts in the case, so as to require the court to call witnesses to testify. — Bernama