A man ordered to hand over two books. A story about petrol and a dustbin. A judge who did not believe him. And a court that still let him go.
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A tin miner took $10,000 to drop her appeal. The man who worked her mine walked into court. Could he?
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A Ruler and his Menteri Besar are not meeting. The budget is due. A clerk in Jempol needs her January pay. What is to be done?
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In 1976 a Seremban judge said two creditors could not share one bankruptcy notice. In 1999 Shah Alam said they could. Fifty years on, nobody above them has answered.
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Two courts halved the debt. The Federal Court redid the sum and got a different answer. Who owes the whole?
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One word crossed Negeri Sembilan this month: 'Treason". What does the law actually say, and who decides?
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One case closed on 7 October. Another opened two days earlier. The noise is falling. Is the crisis ending, or has it moved?
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A wartime newsreader became Lord President — and three of his sentences still decide Malaysian cases today.
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The Constitution of Negeri Sembilan never says its Ruler may be ‘removed’. What it says instead is stranger, and exact.
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A judge in Putrajaya will not say who was right about an Undang’s removal. On 19 October, he decides something smaller, and stranger: whether he may even ask — and a century of cases, from Lagos to London, show that question has never had one settled answer.
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