What Happens to a Lion That Won’t Sit Under the Throne? (Justice George Seah)
Bacon said judges are lions under the throne. George Seah read the sentence and crossed out three words.
Read MoreBacon said judges are lions under the throne. George Seah read the sentence and crossed out three words.
Read MoreHe declared Malaysia's law secular, then spent the rest of his life obeying his own judgment — in pencil. Why the pencil, do you think?
Read MoreAre we asking the right questions about legal training? Malaysia wants to retire the CLP — but the exam, and the training, were never the real danger. It is what we fail to teach.
Read MoreWithin marble chambers where the scales of justice have trembled through tempest and calm, where in silent corridors, darkness once consumed light, where the sacred spirit of law endured its darkest winter— here lives a story of its struggle and its resurrection. The robe, once rent by a political blade, was rewoven with threads of courage; how the flame, once dimmed to dying ember, burns bright once more: luminous, defiant, and eternal.
Read MoreIn 1988, a tremor rent Malaysia’s halls of justice: an institutional earthquake that cleaved its very bedrock. Constitutional pillars crumbled; and the Beacon that once burned bright for Justice flickered, and then, died. Sacred robes, woven with centuries of honour, lay torn in the rubble. The Unthinkable carved its wound into the very beating heart of the Constitution. Here sleep the lasting memories of those who fell, shields raised against the ...
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