The head of the judiciary spent 1987 publicly refusing to criticise the Government. He was removed in 1988 for talking too much.
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Thirty branches. Nobody had registered them. That was enough to kill the party that had governed Malaysia since independence. Not a coup. Not a scandal. Thirty forms nobody had filed.
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A Prime Minister complained, on the record, of a judiciary that would not do as it was told. Two years of investigation later, the government's own panel could find exactly one ruling to support the complaint — and it favoured a foreigner, not a political enemy. A Lord President lost his career inside that gap.
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Thirty ringgit turns five mortal trustees into a body corporate that never dies — and escapes the Companies Act entirely.
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The title names five men. It does not name the trust. And the five are mortal.
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The company may not hold the land. So let it not hold the land. Four hundred years ago the law worked out how.
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A man wants to give land to the temple he has worshipped at for forty years. One sentence stops him.
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A bank searched the title, gave a loan against what it saw, and lost the lot. There was no forger anywhere in this story.
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Malaysia gives the true owner his land back. The duped buyer gets nothing — until the Land Registry was made to pay.
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One judgment was ninety-four per cent copy-paste. How the keyboard killed judicial thought — and how to revive it.
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