KUALA LUMPUR: Some 28 civil suits against Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) have been filed by affected families over the disappearance of the flight MH370 at the High Court here.

MAS lead counsel Saranjit Singh said Tuesday that Judicial Commissioner Azizul Azmi Adnan handled case management for each of the 28 suits.

"The JC wants to complete the filing of documents for each application before next case management on Sept 8," he told The Star after the proceedings held in chambers.

Senior Federal Counsel Alice Loke Yee Ching, who appeared for the Government in 10 suits, said the Court has set July 26 to hear their application to strike out a suit filed by plaintiff K. Sri Devi.

Sri Devi and her family members had filed the suit against MAS and eight others on Feb 25 for alleged negligence and breach of contract and are seeking over RM32mil in damages.

Housewife K. Sri Devi, 32, is the widow of passenger S. Puspanathan, 33.

"There are also 76 plaintiffs applying for discovery of documents from the government, MAS and Malaysia Airline Bhd or MAB which is to be heard on Aug 29," said Loke.

Sri Devi's lawyer Shailender Bhar, who confirmed the details, said he was also applying to the court to get names of various officers and staff on duty from respective Government departments who were monitoring flight MH370 that day, which is scheduled to be heard on July 26.

Saranjit and Loke said the court had set July 20 to hear an application by 32 plaintiffs to stay the proceedings of the civil dispute pending the outcome of civil action filed by several families in the United States.

Lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo, who handled 14 suits, said only Hariza Bachik, the wife of the passenger Muzi Yusop, is planning to settle her case with MAS.

Sangeet said her clients comprise four foreigners and 10 Malaysians.

Flight MH370, which departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to Beijing, China, went missing on March 8, 2014.