Where To Now [Part 11/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
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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A Slow Rebuilding [Part 10/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
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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Ashes and Silence [Part 9/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
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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The Constitutional Amendment [Part 8/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
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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Tirbunal 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.
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Saturday, 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.
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