Found 159 matches for High Court Judge
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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
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| 2004-01-19 | The prisoner at the Court of Pak Lah
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| 2004-01-05 | Pak Lah, calling for a Royal Commission, says the people do not trust the police
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| 2003-12-06 | Maika Holdings: Samy Vellu goes to court
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| 2003-10-15 | The Speaker now joins the flawed officials of the Mahathir epoch THE SPEAKER OF THE DEWAN RAKYAT (THE lower house of Parliament), Tan Sri Zahir Ismail, is a former High Court Judge, in office for more than a quarter of a century. Yet, like many appointed to high positions for political reliability than competence or acclaim, he is clueless about his constitutional position and his rights. That he is caught out over the conduct of another body whose members are appointed for the same reason must embarrass those who did the appointing. So when the Election Commission misled the Conference of Rulers and the House of Parliament, Tan Sri Zahir Ismail, promptly tells the world how impotent he is. But when a cabinet minister repeats the EC's lies to the House, he must apologise and act against the EC separately. Instead, Tan Sri Zahir reduces himself to shivering jelly.
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| 2003-08-13 | Orientalism, Jihad and the Amrozi death penalty
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| 2003-07-08 | Why does the government insist on shooting itself in the foot?
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| 2003-06-11 | Tun Dzaiddin is trapped in a legal storm
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| 2003-06-10 | Should we count our blessings the Reformasi 6 are released?
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| 2003-04-23 | ... And Anwar, as expected, loses his appeal
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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?
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| 2003-03-13 | Is there a crackdown on Indian IT professionals in Malaysia?
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| 2003-02-08 | Does BMW, in Malaysia, stand for Bumiputra Motor Works? Since then, the government privatised all government
vehicles, for a peppercorn price payable when able and at
leisure, to a company called Spanco; if you look closely enough,
you would find its ultimate owners to one Daim Zainuddin and his
equally shadowy sidekick, Robert Tan. The pair made a killing.
At least one High Court Judge I know continues to use his private
Mercedes Benz than the official Proton. The only man I know who
uses his Proton Executive proudly is the reclusive business man,
Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhairy. There is a civil service
convention that cabinet ministers and high government officials
are allowed to buy their five-year old official cars are a
fraction it is worth on the market. All they have to do is to
pay the duties and excise and other taxes. Which they can sell
after a few years at double what they paid for them. The Proton
official cars do not have the same cache or interest.
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| 2003-01-01 | The Khalwat Case: When Islamic Law in Malaysia runs berserk
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| 2002-12-20 | UMNO shaken by a khalwat arrest
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| 2002-11-20 | The Terror War: The Mountains Roared And A Mouse Shivers
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| 2002-11-10 | Breaking into Muslim homes: Terror revisited The new amendments to the Internal Security Act, which
provides for detention without trial in two-year bursts for as
long as the government wants to, prohibits those arrested from
appealing to the courts. A loophole in the law allowed some
detainees to appeal to the courts, which ordered them released.
The government would not. Instead, the justice minister
announced amendments to plug the loophole in hurried amendments
through parliament. When the Malaysian government decides, often
on faulty investigation, evidence and advice, a man is a threat
to its equanimity, and ordered detained under the Internal
Security Act, he is not allowed to challenge his detention in
court, as he once could. The perfunctory judicial overview,
headed by a retired High Court Judge, has not, in living memory,
ordered a detainee released; even if it does, the government can
choose to ignore it. He automtically loses all rights once
detained, however unlawfully or unfairly. More than 70 men and
women now detained under the ISA are from JI, detained in raids
more harshly conducted than by the Australian intelligence
officials.
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| 2002-10-30 | The Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics
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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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