Three of them apologised. Two refused. That is how the story is usually told. It is wrong in every part.
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The Supreme Court of Malaysia sat that Saturday at ten minutes to one. It had no registry.
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Six men were appointed to try the head of the Malaysian judiciary. One of them would get his job.
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The 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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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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A businessman pays RM10 million and 26 charges vanish. When should the State take the money, and when should it explain itself?
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'Palli' is a Tamil word, meaning 'cicak'. 'Palli Sastram' is the lost art of conversing with sentient creatures. Here, a lawyer, UK Menon, speaks of his own experience with an ancient culture and the mystical arts.
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Bacon said judges are lions under the throne. George Seah read the sentence and crossed out three words.
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