In 1988 a young lawyer in Kuala Terengganu put a sticker on his car. It read Tabik Hormat Untuk Lima Orang Hakim. Salute to the five judges... Thirty-seven years later, that lawyer became Chief Justice of Malaysia.
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Every year the judges and lawyers of Malaysia played the lawyers of Singapore at games... In 1988 it was cancelled. ... Men can play cricket together again while the thing they serve is still broken.
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The Bar went to court twice for the judges, and lost twice. The second time, it was the Bar that was punished.
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Fourteen words went out. Three went in. What the courts had held by right, they now held by permission. Parliament gives. Parliament may take away. ... The heading is still there. Underneath it, there is none.
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Three of them apologised. Two refused. That is how the story is usually told. It is wrong in every part.
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The Supreme Court of Malaysia sat that Saturday at ten minutes to one. It had no registry.
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The head of the judiciary spent 1987 publicly refusing to criticise the Government. He was removed in 1988 for talking too much.
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Malaysia and India still let a spoken word cost you your house. Guarantee law has always adapted — so why is theirs frozen in 1872?
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You are arguing a case. The court asks you to share a document. You try. Everything stalls. The screens freeze. The judges tap their fingers impatiently. Is there a faster, foolproof way to share PDFs over Zoom at hearings? Yes, there is.
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Your car is clamped. RM100 is demanded for its release. You pay, in anger. Can they do it? Can you sue the car-park owner? How?
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