Tribunal One [Part 5/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]

Six men were appointed to try the head of the Malaysian judiciary. One of them would get his job.

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The Letter that Lit the Fuse [Part 4/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]

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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A Judiciary that Talks Back [Part 3/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]

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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The Party Splits [Part 2/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]

Thirty branches. Nobody had registered them. That was enough to kill the party that had governed Malaysia since independence. Not a coup. Not a scandal. Thirty forms nobody had filed.

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The Flashpoint [Part 1/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]

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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Is Justice Turning Into a Toll Road? [on Macau Scams]

A businessman pays RM10 million and 26 charges vanish. When should the State take the money, and when should it explain itself?

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