What Happens to a Lion That Won’t Sit Under the Throne? (Justice George Seah)
Bacon said judges are lions under the throne. George Seah read the sentence and crossed out three words.
Read MoreBacon said judges are lions under the throne. George Seah read the sentence and crossed out three words.
Read MoreHe was mistaken for an interpreter, a hotel manager, an ugly judge, and a corpse. Then the scoreboard got it wrong too.
Read MoreHe lost the case three to two in 1988. The Federal Court handed it to him in 2024, long after he was gone.
Read MoreHe declared Malaysia's law secular, then spent the rest of his life obeying his own judgment — in pencil. Why the pencil, do you think?
Read MoreBacon said judges are lions under the throne. Mahadev Shankar made them tigers, and meant it.
Read MoreHe told a convicted Menteri Besar he had betrayed his Sovereign Ruler. Eight years later, he became one.
Read MoreA two-hour submission, one raised hand, and forty minutes: how a Federal Court judge quietly rewrote Malaysian law.
Read MoreMortmain — the dead hand. England buried the last of it in 1960. Malaysia still carries a fragment, and nobody has explained why.
Read MoreThirty ringgit turns five mortal trustees into a body corporate that never dies — and escapes the Companies Act entirely.
Read MoreThe title names five men. It does not name the trust. And the five are mortal.
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