For decades, demands by Malaysian lawyers for a cleaner judicial system have fallen on deaf ears. But now a grainy video by an amateur has suddenly answered their prayers.
A royal commission probing a scandal on judicial appointments that the video spawned has strayed beyond its narrow terms of reference and put the judiciary’s reputation [...]
Malaysia’s highest court Thursday rejected on technicality a Hindu woman’s plea to stop her Muslim convert husband from divorcing her in an Islamic court and changing their son’s religion to Islam.
But the Federal Court added that marital disputes, where one spouse is a converted Muslim and the other a non-Muslim, should only be decided in [...]
Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi’s sudden announcement of the appointment of Zaki Azmi to the second highest post in the judiciary — President of the Court of Appeal — must have jolted and dismayed many who have cherished hopes of judicial reforms following the reluctant retirement of Ahmad Fairuz Abdul Halim.
After all, Zaki Azmi, who [...]
Tan Sri Zaki Azmi’s role in Umno will not influence his performance in his latest position as the Court of Appeal president.
In defending Zaki’s appointment, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said, except for being Umno’s Disciplinary (Technical) Committee chairman and Selection Committee secretary, the 62-year-old did not hold any [...]
Malaysia’s government has appointed a former ruling party lawyer as the No. 2 judge in the country, provoking sharp concerns among the Bar Council and the opposition at his meteoric rise through the ranks.Zaki Azmi raised eyebrows when he became the first lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge in the Federal Court [...]
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…the Malaysian Bar expressed surprise over the appointment of Zaki as the Court of Appeal president, the second highest office holder in the judiciary.
This is given his very recent elevation to the Federal Court and that there were other suitable candidates in terms of seniority and service in the judiciary, Bar Council chairwoman Ambiga [...]
… Now consider Malaysia. The weekend before last, up to 40,000 Malaysians took to the streets in Kuala Lumpur to protest peacefully against the judiciary’s lack of independence, electoral fraud, corruption and a controlled media.
In response, they were threatened by the Prime Minister, called monkeys by his powerful son-in-law, and blasted with water cannons and [...]
Datuk V.K. Lingam, 56, is a prominent lawyer who started his career as a senior manager with several multinational and local companies in the early 1970s and 1980s.
He joined UMW Holdings and served as its human resource manager before reading law at the University of Buckingham in England.
He completed his studies in 1985 and rejoined [...]
Malaysia’s government faced mounting pressure Monday to pursue judicial reforms, as the country’s former king voiced distress that judges are losing their case in the court of public opinion.
Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah, addressing a conference of lawyers, said there have been recent “disturbing events relating to the judiciary” — an apparent reference to a [...]
The judiciary and Parliament are responsible for the current state of the Federal Constitution.
Senior constitutional lawyer Raja Aziz Addruse said the checks and balances that were in the 1957 constitution did not exist anymore.
He cited the reasons for this change as a failure of the courts to uphold fundamental liberties, executive interference and [...]
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