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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The letter that brought down the Malaysian judiciary asked for nothing. It made no demand. It threatened nobody. It sought no remedy from any court. It expressed disappointment, and it expressed a hope. It was also not the Lord President's idea.
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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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A Prime Minister complained, on the record, of a judiciary that would not do as it was told. Two years of investigation later, the government's own panel could find exactly one ruling to support the complaint — and it favoured a foreigner, not a political enemy. A Lord President lost his career inside that gap.
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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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A judge reproduced a lawyer’s submissions almost word for word. Two Commonwealth traditions have quietly answered why that matters.
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Are 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.
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The Anwar government is changing who controls the gate into the legal profession. A Minister will choose - and can remove - most of the people who decide who becomes a lawyer. When politicians control that gate, future lawyers may think twice before taking cases against the government. And when that happens, ordinary Malaysians may struggle to find truly independent help in court.
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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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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 Constitution itself seemed to roar. This is the untold story of how one man's unwavering integrity shaped constitutional law across the Commonwealth—and why his final act on Republic Day 1996 was the perfect ending to ...
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