Royal Pardons for Anwar and Najib: is every Royal Pardon really the same?
A royal pardon is not always what it seems. Nor are all pardons born equal. This essay sets Anwar’s legal clean slate against Najib’s trimmed sentence, and asks what that reveals about power, process, and ...
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Can the Najib Addendum override constitutional procedure? The High Court’s Answer
Can a King’s mercy bypass constitutional procedure? In a landmark ruling, Justice Alice Loke says, “No”. She affirms that even royal prerogatives must give way to Constitutional 'due process'.
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Can a court change the language of a written constitution?
No: only Parliament wields the power to amend the Constitution:(Article 159). Yet deeper currents flow beneath: MA63 protects East Malaysian rights. Any constitutional amendment requires their consent. And it is an international Treaty lodged with ...
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Justice on trial: Can Malaysians still trust their courts?
Is Malaysia still a land where everyone stands equal before the law? Or have powerful hands quietly reshaped our justice system to favour the few?
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CJ’s Malta speech defines Democracy: a Government’s legitimacy depends on an Independent Judiciary
Can a judge speak truth about justice without facing negative consequences? Chief Justice Tengku Maimun’s Malta Speech exposed the deepest fractures. It revealed a constitutional cross-road by asking this question: "Will Malaysians choose constitutional rule, ...
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Why did India’s greatest legal mind refuse the Chief Justiceship?
For seven years, he was briefless. Politicians feared his moral courage. He refused the post of CJ. That post would have been his for five and a half years. Yet when Seervai spoke, the ...
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