Found 126 matches for Chief Justice
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| 2004-01-28 | The General Election is at hand, along with the usual politically-charged crossovers The news reports in the mainstream media revealed not a unity of purpose directed from the centre but of centrifugal forces moves away from it. The more the news, the more the headaches discussed in public. Which is why a manufactured public campaign of flogging rapists in public diverted attention. If you want to know what happens in UMNO, the official and mainstream media will not now provide it. You must turn to the alternate media or talk to the UMNO leaders in private and off the record. As if UMNO and BN did not have problems enough, the Anwar appeal for bail at the Court of Appeal last month added another: it was denied, but in circumstances that it could not maintain decorum and order in court. Pak Lah stepped in to assert the independence of the judiciary, when it should have been the Chief Justice who should have. It politicised the judiciary as nothing else since it decided, at politicial instigation, to convict Dato' Seri Anwar no matter what.
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| 2004-01-27 | The main election issue in 2004, as in 1999, is Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim
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| 2004-01-24 | UMNO leaders dissemble as Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim returns to the political centre stage
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| 2004-01-23 | Pak Lah takes issue with Anwar Ibrahim on the judiciary's independence DATO' SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM'S CUTTING remarks, after the Court of Appeal turned down his appeal for bail this week (21 January 2004) and his appeal against a conviction for sodomy, about kept judges and of a judiciary beholden to political pressures, struck home. The three judges should have struck him down and charged him for contempt of court. Instead, they walked out. The judiciary has kept silent on that extraordinary scene. If it had to respond, it should have been the three judges or, even, the Chief Justice. But the Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, did, which raised more questions than answers. In his defence of the judiciary, he stuck to constitutional and judicial principles, not how the judiciary is or could be independent when its Chief Justice, or Lord President as he was known then, was drummed out of his own court for believing in its independence, and judges are not promoted, on political pressure, because they are too independent, or others are rushed through the ranks to the highest positions for no reason than they are pliable and respond to what the Prime Minister wants, and a Chief Justices goes on holidays with his favourite lawyer, when they have appeals pending in his Court.
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| 2004-01-22 | The Anwar affair divides Malaysia as ever One practical effect of the Court of Appeal decision yesterday is political. The first test of the Anwar affair was in 1999, when the BN government lost ground, and Trengganu because of it. The 2004 General Election is another, the more stronger than 1999, of the Anwar enigma. Dato' Seri Anwar has had five years to prepare for it. His case has unnerved the Establishment as nothing has in 50 years. When PAS met the ambassadors recently to explain its Islamic State Document, the moderator was a solid figure of the Establishment, a well-regarded Malaysian ambassador who was once seconded to the Istana Negara at the request of the then Yang Dipertuan Agung. Defections like these are common place. The former Lord President (Chief Justice) is a member of the PAS-run state executive council. A former armed forces chief is an active member of PAS, as are retired secretaries-general of federal ministries. The political divide continues unabated.
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| 2003-12-22 | The Ninjas and Scholars scramble for Pak Lah's ear
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| 2003-12-09 | A cabinet minister has this insane desire to be proved corrupt!
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| 2003-11-20 | The BN admits dato'ships and other titles could be bought under its governance
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| 2003-11-18 | Dato Seri, what did you pay for the title?
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| 2003-10-14 | The Anwar phenomen sinks Dr Mahathir and his reputation
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| 2003-10-11 | Istana Keadilan is why KeADILan is denied its name
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| 2003-09-17 | The Election Commission as a Puteri UMNO employment agency
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| 2003-08-13 | Orientalism, Jihad and the Amrozi death penalty
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| 2003-07-21 | The MCA and the triads: might is right
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| 2003-07-05 | An UMNO-owned newspaper grovels before a super crony Tan Sri Vincent no doubt cannot understand what this fuss is
all about. He believes passionately in the canard he is an
international business man on unquestioned repute. A decade ago,
he subborned the courts to grant him his right to the fantasy.
Then none would dare question it. That and his status as a Prime
Ministerial crony would allow him the freedom to do as he
pleased. He had no doubt he would get what he wanted. His lawyer
went on holidays with the Chief Justice to exotic locations, and
he with the attorney-general, and other legal luminaries, to
Italy and elsewhere. To him and cronies before and after him, the
courts are there to protect them at any cost. Justice, in their
view, is only to the highest bidder.
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| 2003-06-15 | Rewriting Malaysian history: The present without the past
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| 2003-06-11 | Tun Dzaiddin is trapped in a legal storm THE MALAYSIAN JUDICIARY IS NOT WHAT it should be. It is said to
dispense "the best justice money can buy". Outside its doors are
the detritus of judicial skeletons, which by the time it
became public had become the norm. Political and other presures
dictated how a high profile case is decided. This began with a
vengeance after the then Lord President of the Supreme Court, as
the Chief Justice was then known, Tun Salleh Abas, and two
Supreme Court judges were denied justice in their own court and
drummed out, more to warn the judges of the fate awaiting them if
they did not oblige. Justice, in short, was available only to the
highest or the most powerful bidder.
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| 2003-03-20 | The Anwar conundrum There is reason to believe this. The director of Sungei
Buloh prison went out of his way to issue Dato' Seri Anwar's
release on 14 April 2003 two months earlier. This shook the
government no end. On 17 February, two meetings were held in
Putra Jaya: the first that justice minister, Dato' Seri Rais
Yatim, called had the two high court judges in the Anwar trial,
the retiring Chief Justice, Tun Dzaiddin Abdullah, two federal
court judges, the Inspector-General of Police, and others, and
met for two hours "until 4.32 pm". They adjourned immediately to
the office of the acting prime minister, Dato' Seri Abdullah
Ahmad Badawi. With him were the Attorney-General, Dato' Ghani
Patail, and others. That meeting continued until dinner. The
import of the two meetings was clear: make sure Dato' Seri Anwar
is not let out, find ways to ensure he remains in jail, with his
nine-year sentence starting immediately.
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| 2003-03-19 | Could the Chief Justice sack corrupt judges? TAN SRI AHMAD FAIRUZ SHEIKH ABDUL HALIM IS Chief Justice for his
political reliability, not for his legal erudition nor judicial
probity. Several more senior Federal Court judges could not this
political cut and are bypassed. Should that be? If a judiciary
must be independent of political pressure, the most senior should
automatically rise up the ranks in every promotion, however
distasteful that must be to the political power. That strengthens
judicial independence as nothing else for they could dispense
justice without having to look over the shoulders. And maintain
the judicial decorum that, by and large, is no more. When judges
deliver a politically desirable verdict, or at the behest of a
business men, or accept under-the-counter gratuities for
verdicts, especially where it involves crony business men, the
communal notion of justice is destroyed. There are unfortunately
judges in the Judiciary who cannot deny the allegations.
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| 2003-02-02 | Cleansing the Augean Stables
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This archive was created as a tribute to the late veteran
journalist MGG Pillai. We believed his writings are useful to develop a critical
thinking analysis.
By the way, the original mggpillai.com web site (2001-2006) was actually created
by one of us.
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