A wartime newsreader became Lord President — and three of his sentences still decide Malaysian cases today.
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Bacon said judges are lions under the throne. George Seah read the sentence and crossed out three words.
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He was mistaken for an interpreter, a hotel manager, an ugly judge, and a corpse. Then the scoreboard got it wrong too.
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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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A judge reproduced a lawyer’s submissions almost word for word. Two Commonwealth traditions have quietly answered why that matters.
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One judgment was ninety-four per cent copy-paste. How the keyboard killed judicial thought — and how to revive it.
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