Lawyer Sarah Abishegam, who represented the former prime minister, said court deputy registrar Suhaila Haron has also maintained the same date to hear Azilah’s review, filed under Rule 137 of the Federal Court Rules 1995.

Deputy public prosecutor Muhammad Azmi Mashud represented the prosecution while J Kuldeep Kumar appeared for Azilah, who is currently in the Sungai Buloh prison.

The court had earlier fixed Oct 21 to hear Najib’s application but it was postponed due to the ongoing conditional movement control order (CMCO).

All courts in Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur and Selangor have suspended criminal and civil trials as well as interlocutory matters during the extended CMCO period, which is set to end on Nov 9.

Both Azilah and the prosecution are objecting to Najib becoming an intervener.

Azilah filed the review last December to annul his 2015 conviction and retrial ordered to prevent a miscarriage of justice.

Azilah, who was convicted together with former policeman Sirul Azhar Umar, said among others that Abdul Razak Baginda, Altantuya’s former lover, who was acquitted of her murder, and senior police officer Musa Safri were aware of “instructions” from Najib.

He and Sirul were sentenced to death in January 2015, nine years after the Mongolian woman was killed in a forest near Shah Alam and her body blown up using explosives.

A five-member bench chaired by then chief justice Arifin Zakaria overturned their earlier acquittal by the Court of Appeal.