Your solicitor raided your money for his own emergency, then quietly put it back. The courts said the wrong was done the moment he took it. Suppose A donates a kidney meant for B, the patient waiting on the transplant list. The surgeon instead implants it in his girlfriend. How would you feel about it — especially if you were B?
Read MoreTirbunal Two [Part 7/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
Three of them apologised. Two refused. That is how the story is usually told. It is wrong in every part.
Read MoreSaturday, 2 July [Part 6/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
The Supreme Court of Malaysia sat that Saturday at ten minutes to one. It had no registry.
Read MoreThe Party Splits [Part 2/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
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.
Read MoreWhat 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 MoreHe was mistaken for an interpreter, a hotel manager, an ugly judge, and a corpse. Then the scoreboard got it wrong too.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreWhat 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?
Read MoreIs 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.
Read MoreWhat 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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