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Can a Royal Pardon Come With a Leash Attached?
A pardon board can promise a great deal. But can it also fit the leash — or must Parliament forge that first?
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Bilakah Seorang Menteri Besar Berhenti Menjadi Menteri Besar? [BM-9/NS]
Pada 2010, Mahkamah Persekutuan membiarkan seorang Menteri Besar jatuh tanpa satu undi pun diambil. Satu fasal sahaja sudah cukup. Adakah Negeri Sembilan mempunyai fasal itu?
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In 2010 the Federal Court let a Menteri Besar fall without a single vote being taken. One clause did it. Does Negeri Sembilan have that clause?
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Bolehkah Dua Tandatangan Berselang Beberapa Bulan Melucutkan Takhta? [BM-8/NS]
Sehelai kertas bertarikh April. Satu tandatangan ditambah pada bulan Ogos, oleh seorang yang belum menjadi Menteri Besar pada bulan April. Bolehkah sesebuah perlembagaan disempurnakan separuh-separuh?
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Can Two Signatures, Months Apart, Remove Negeri’s Ruler? [8/NS]
A paper dated April. A signature added in August, by a man who was not a Menteri Besar in April. Can a constitution be finished in two halves?
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Bolehkah Takhta Negeri Sembilan Berpindah Melalui Pengumuman? [BM-7/NS]
Tidak. Pemasyhuran itu pagar, Perlembagaan itu daftar. Hanya satu daripadanya memindahkan hak.
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Can the Negeri Sembilan Throne Change Hands by Announcement? [7/NS]
No. A proclamation is the gate; the Constitution is the register. Only one of them moves the title.
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A Lawyer Delays His Disciplinary Hearing. Must the Disciplinary Committee Sit and Wait?
What happens when a lawyer accused of professional misconduct keeps finding excuses not to show up to answer for it?
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Your solicitor raided your money for his own emergency, then quietly put it back. The courts said the wrong was done the moment he took it. Suppose A donates a kidney meant for B, the patient waiting on the transplant list. The surgeon instead implants it in his girlfriend. How would you feel about it — especially if you were B?
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Where To Now [Part 11/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
In 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.
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