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| 2001-10-08 | ... And Another Daim Appointee Is On The Skids He left the country's finances in the lurch, ran down UMNO's
investments of several billion ringgit into a debt approaching
one billion in a way that it could not ever be repaid. I
understand that his cronies are investigated with the proverbial
fine tooth comb. No one thought this would have touched the
Attorney-General, for she has remained above the political
battle, and all accounts I have heard of her short period in
office is like a breath of fresh air after the moribund and
lapdog leadership of her predecessor and Chief Justice wannabe,
Tan Sri Mohtar Abdullah.
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| 2001-09-21 | Where is Dato' Seri Mahathir Mohamed?
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| 2001-09-09 | The mv Tampa: Australia Shootes Herself In The Foot
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| 2001-08-21 | Judicial And Legal Second Thoughts On Defamation This belief that under a new Chief Justice the law, especially to
defamation, would right itself is misplaced. The new president
of the court of appeal, if what I hear would come to pass, is a
man of the ancien regime, one the Prime Minister wants ensconced.
In these matters, you lose some and win some. But what is at
stake is not high defamation damages but more serious: the
belief that judicial independence depends on the Chief Justice of
the day. It should not. It must not. Defamation law is turned
on its head, time-honed rules ignored, and with the legal
presumption that a man is ipso facto defamed if he sues for
redress.
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| 2001-07-16 | Strains In the Likas Byelection in Sabah
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| 2001-07-05 | A Political Secretary Wrapped In Intrigue And Mystery
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| 2001-06-12 | Judicial Instructions From Above Mr Justice Muhammad Kamil Awang, in declaring the Likas state assembly
seat in Sabah vacant, said he ignored an order from his superior to strike
out the election petition. He would not say who it was, though in a
subsequent press conference he ruled out politicians (and therefore the
Prime Minister and deputy prime minister), the present Chief Justice, Tan
Sri Dzaiddin Mohamed; the president of the Court of Appeal, Tan Sri Lamin
Yunus, said he did not; the then chief judge Tan Sri Chong Siew Feh too
principled a man to indulge in such actions. That left just one man who
could possibly have done so: the former Chief Justice, Tun Eusoff Chin.
And this instruction came in 1999, shortly after the Sabah elections
petitions had been filed.
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| 2001-06-01 | Constitution, A Crutch For The Limping Judiciary 5:15pm, Fri: Mohd Dzaiddin Abdullah, as Chief Justice,
breathes fresh air into a judiciary gasping for oxygen for a
decade and more. Age prevents him doing more. But within
six months in office, he returns the judges to their
traditional role, and relaxes and removes the bars which his
predecessors had imposed.
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| 2001-05-20 | ISA Not A "Que Sera Sera" Matter
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| 2001-05-15 | Tan Sri Vincent Tan Wants RM22 million from Sydney Journalist Tan Sri Vincent personally also claims that Ganesh had
defamed him by implying in a query to the Norwegian Labor
Party, that he had interefered with the independence of the
judiciary to such an extent that no one challenging him in a
Malaysian court could expect to win. The pictures at
www.malaysia.net/special, and the story I wrote to go with
the pictures, are part of Vincent's statement of claim.
(These refer to photos of the former Chief Justice, Tun
Eusoff Chin, and Dato' V.K. Lingam, on holidays with their
families in New Zealand; and of Tan Sri Vincent, Dato'
Lingam, the former Attorney-General and now federal court
judge, Tan Sri Mohtar Abdullah and their wives in Rome.)
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| 2001-05-13 | The Anwar Trial That Was Not Puts The Government On Trial
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| 2001-05-10 | Anwar And Civil Society
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| 2001-04-17 | A Black Eye For The Police
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| 2001-03-12 | Rising To The Occasion He is the second judge, who having lost their heads
under the now mercifully retired Chief Justice, Tun Eusoff
Chin, now come back to sanity. He was on the point of
resigning when it was rumoured that under the present Chief Justice, Tan Sri Dzaiddin Abdullah, he would have been
better off in Tawau, the favourite corner to which Tun
Eusoff consigned judges he did not like. But Tan Sri
Dzaiddin is not Tun Eusoff. He does not operate in
vengeance. Indeed if he had, he would have been no better
than his predecessor.
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| 2001-03-01 | Couriters, satraps cosy under the Law's skirt The de facto law minister, Rais Yatim, says it should
be left to the judges to curtail the high defamation
damages. That is how it should be. Few can pay what is
demanded. So, it is used to frighten comment and dissent.
For a decade and a half, judges were selected not for their
erudition and judicial temparament but for their loyalty
primarily to the Chief Justice.
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| 2001-02-28 | Unity Talks' Joker-In-The-Pack
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| 2001-02-26 | Defamation law turned on its head And take steps to put that right. He should do this even if
he was described by the former Chief Justice as the
"minister of law in charge of tables and chairs".
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| 2001-02-25 | Revised: Lame Duck Chief Ministers Beholden to Kuala Lumpur
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| 2001-02-22 | Federal Court Appealed To Rehear The Vincent Tan Libel Appeal My grounds for the appeal include the possibility of
apparent or real bias and a denial of justice under the
Federal constitution due to the close friendship of Tun
Eusoff Chin, the Chief Justice who retired two months ago,
and Dato' V.K. Lingam, who represented Tan Sri Vincent Tan
in the suit. (Photographs of them and their families on
holiday in New Zealand are on the Internet and can be found
at http://www.malaysia.net/special.) This is a rare
appplication and is strengthened by the Pinochet principle
in the British House of Lords, which quashed an earlier
decision to extrade General Pinochet to Spain and ordered a
retrial because it was learnt later one Law Lord and his
wife were active in Amnesty International, one group
campaigninf for the former Chilean president's extradition
to Spain.
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| 2001-02-07 | Let The Drums Roll For The RM100 Million Minister! That did not stop Dato' Lingam. According to an
affidvait filed in another defamation action, he helpfully
wrote part or all of the judgement in that case. He is such
a powerful figure that he goes on holidays with the now
retired Chief Justice, Tun Eusoff Chin, and the former
Attorney-General and now federal court judge, Tan Sri Mohtar
Abdullah.
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