Instituting judicial reforms in Malaysia will not scare foreign investors away, the country’s largest lawyers’ group said Tuesday, rejecting a warning by the prime minister.
The Malaysian Bar Council, which represents 12,000 attorneys, claims the government is not doing enough to resolve a scandal sparked when a video clip was released purportedly showing a prominent [...]
A row has broken out between the Malaysian Bar Council and the executive over comments by Datuk Seri Mohamad Nazri Abdul Aziz, a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, who on Sunday called lawyers “crazy” for showing their displeasure at the country’s judiciary by taking to the streets. Some 2,000 lawyers of every age, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What Witness Protection Act? That was the question the legal fraternity was asking Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamad Nazri Abdul Aziz today.
Nazri had mentioned the “Act” yesterday when he said the person who took the controversial video clip of a lawyer’s phone conversation with a “Datuk” would be given full protection, [...]
Shouting “Change, Change, Change” and carrying banners that read Bersihkan Badan Kehakiman (Clean up the Judiciary), “No to Corruption” and Rakyat Hakim Negara (The People are the Judge), more than 2,000 lawyers and activists went on a 3.5km march here yesterday.
“When lawyers walk, something is wrong … that means we would like to see [...]
Bar Council chairman Ambiga Sreenevasan said she “respectfully disagreed with the minister”, adding that it was a question of interpretation of the law.
“It is our view that the provisions in the Constitution state that the posts of Chief Justice and Chief Judge of Malaya are independent of one another.
“If read together with the Courts of [...]
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