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Is it treason? What the law means by the word [23/NS]
One word crossed Negeri Sembilan this month: 'Treason". What does the law actually say, and who decides?
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Is the Negeri Sembilan crisis ending, or only changing rooms? [22/NS]
One case closed on 7 October. Another opened two days earlier. The noise is falling. Is the crisis ending, or has it moved?
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Negeri Sembilan: Can a court even look? What the Court of Appeal decides on 19 October [20/NS]
A judge in Putrajaya will not say who was right about an Undang’s removal. On 19 October, he decides something smaller, and stranger: whether he may even ask — and a century of cases, from Lagos to London, show that question has never had one settled answer.
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Can a Menteri Besar stay in office after rejecting the Ruler who appointed him? [18/NS]
He is said to have turned against the Ruler who made him Menteri Besar. The Ruler cannot simply dismiss him. The law has an answer. Conscience has another.
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Siapa sebenarnya menandatangani cek Negeri Sembilan sekarang? [BM-17/NS]
Sepuluh ahli MMKN telah hilang. Menteri Besar mempertikaikannya. Antara kedua-duanya, seseorang masih membayar bil Negeri Sembilan. Siapa?
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Who is signing Negeri Sembilan’s cheques right now? [17/NS]
Ten Exco members are gone. The Menteri Besar disputes it. Somewhere between them, someone is still paying Negeri Sembilan’s bills. Who?
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Can Negeri Sembilan’s Exco Suspend Its Own State Secretary and Legal Adviser?
Does the State Executive Council (MMKN) have the constitutional authority to do so, or does the position differ in respect of each officer?
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Was the Negeri Sembilan Ruler empowered to dismiss his Exco? [13/NS]
Ten Exco members lost their jobs overnight. The Menteri Besar did not. The clause behind it runs 24 words past the word everyone quotes — and those words are now in court.
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Was the dissolution of the NS State Assembly lawful—and what now? [6/NS]
Was the dissolution lawful, and how far may a court go? The architecture of royal non-justiciability, explained neutrally.
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The NS Constitution and the clause built to silence the courts: can it? [5/NS]
Can a 1982 ouster clause still keep the courts out? Eighty years of common-law authority, laid before the bench.
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