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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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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Bacon said judges are lions under the throne. Mahadev Shankar made them tigers, and meant it.
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He told a convicted Menteri Besar he had betrayed his Sovereign Ruler. Eight years later, he became one.
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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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Thirty ringgit turns five mortal trustees into a body corporate that never dies — and escapes the Companies Act entirely.
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The title names five men. It does not name the trust. And the five are mortal.
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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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A man wants to give land to the temple he has worshipped at for forty years. One sentence stops him.
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