Krisis Negeri Sembilan: reda, atau sekadar berpindah bilik? [BM-22/NS]
Satu kes tamat pada 7 Oktober. Satu lagi bermula dua hari sebelumnya. Krisis ini berakhir, atau berpindah?
Read MoreSatu kes tamat pada 7 Oktober. Satu lagi bermula dua hari sebelumnya. Krisis ini berakhir, atau berpindah?
Read MoreTen Exco members are gone. The Menteri Besar disputes it. Somewhere between them, someone is still paying Negeri Sembilan’s bills. Who?
Read MoreIn 1988 a young lawyer in Kuala Terengganu put a sticker on his car. It read Tabik Hormat Untuk Lima Orang Hakim. Salute to the five judges... Thirty-seven years later, that lawyer became Chief Justice of Malaysia.
Read MoreEvery year the judges and lawyers of Malaysia played the lawyers of Singapore at games... In 1988 it was cancelled. ... Men can play cricket together again while the thing they serve is still broken.
Read MoreThe Bar went to court twice for the judges, and lost twice. The second time, it was the Bar that was punished.
Read MoreFourteen words went out. Three went in. What the courts had held by right, they now held by permission. Parliament gives. Parliament may take away. ... The heading is still there. Underneath it, there is none.
Read MoreThree of them apologised. Two refused. That is how the story is usually told. It is wrong in every part.
Read MoreThe Supreme Court of Malaysia sat that Saturday at ten minutes to one. It had no registry.
Read MoreSix men were appointed to try the head of the Malaysian judiciary. One of them would get his job.
Read MoreThe letter that brought down the Malaysian judiciary asked for nothing. It made no demand. It threatened nobody. It sought no remedy from any court. It expressed disappointment, and it expressed a hope. It was also not the Lord President's idea.
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