He was mistaken for an interpreter, a hotel manager, an ugly judge, and a corpse. Then the scoreboard got it wrong too.
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How Long Must a Judge Wait to Be Proved Right? (Justice Eusoffe Abdoolcader)
He lost the case three to two in 1988. The Federal Court handed it to him in 2024, long after he was gone.
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What Do You Do When Your Own Judgment Rules Against You? (Salleh Abas LP)
He declared Malaysia's law secular, then spent the rest of his life obeying his own judgment — in pencil. Why the pencil, do you think?
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Is There Any Point in Learning Things by Heart? (Justice Mahadev Shankar)
Bacon said judges are lions under the throne. Mahadev Shankar made them tigers, and meant it.
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What Happens When the Judge Who Limited Power Is Handed a Crown?
He told a convicted Menteri Besar he had betrayed his Sovereign Ruler. Eight years later, he became one.
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How Do You Turn Two Hours of Rambling Argument Into Forty Minutes of Justice? The Judging Genius of Edgar Joseph Jr
A two-hour submission, one raised hand, and forty minutes: how a Federal Court judge quietly rewrote Malaysian law.
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Mortmain — the dead hand. England buried the last of it in 1960. Malaysia still carries a fragment, and nobody has explained why.
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The Best Statute Nobody Uses [Part 4/5]
Thirty ringgit turns five mortal trustees into a body corporate that never dies — and escapes the Companies Act entirely.
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Your Trust Is Invisible, and Your Trustee Is Mortal [Part 3/5]
The title names five men. It does not name the trust. And the five are mortal.
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The Oldest Trick in Equity [Part 2/5]
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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