KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court will hear Datuk Seri Najib Razak's leave application to initiate committal proceedings against former Attorney-General Tan Sri Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh.

Judge K. Muniandy made the decision after ruling that the committal application was not subject to an earlier High Court order that stayed all proceedings related to Najib's judicial review over his house arrest claim.

On April 28, judge Hayatul Akmal Abdul Aziz, who has since been elevated to the Court of Appeal, granted a stay order pending Najib's final attempt to reinstate his judicial review application at the Federal Court.

The court has fixed Aug 19 to hear the leave application.

The former prime minister filed the application against Terrirudin, now a Federal Court judge, alleging that he misled the court during proceedings involving an alleged addendum order by the former Yang di-Pertuan Agong, which purportedly allowed Najib to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.

Earlier, senior federal counsel Shamsul Bolhassan submitted that the committal application should not proceed, arguing that the stay order applied to all related applications.