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| 2002-09-25 | Could Dr M afford to make Anwar Ibrahim a bankrupt?
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| 2002-09-20 | Racism and religious fundamentalism in a multiracial state
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| 2002-09-20 | The Yong Teck Lee Sandiwara
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| 2002-09-11 | The Perils of the ISA
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| 2002-09-06 | The Royal Malaysian Police Can Do No Wrong ... When policeman are underpaid and corruption is the only way
to make ends meet, we would get a system like this. When this is
combined with a highly corruptible, if it is not already corrupt,
civil service, and a politician who can cut corners for a price,
and the public is told to fend for himself, especially if he
needs it badly, anarchy cannot be far behind. A High Court Judge
does not trust his staff that all the files he hands are safely
locked in his chambers. When money changes hands for desirable
judgements, when files can be made to be lost for a little fee,
when Land Offices do no return the change for work done, and its
staff berate you if you ask for it, and this is not the odd clerk
who does it but widespread, it is proof that our First World
pretentions must collapse under the unbearable burden of Third
World realities.
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| 2002-08-20 | The BN Court Jester Provides The Comic Relief
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| 2002-08-17 | Politics and Retribution Mires An Illness
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| 2002-08-14 | When Doomsday Beckons
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| 2002-08-01 | Judge Pot Calls Judge Kettle Black Court of Appeal Judge Gopal Sri Ram and High Court Judge R.K.
Nathan were once two facets of the same problem of justice in
Malaysia. Both were aligned to Chief Justice Tun Eusoff Chin,
one kept quiet at the blatant injustices perpetrated until he
could stomach it no more and rebelled, the other appointed in his
tenure. The two barely acknowledged each other, more so after
Tun Eusoff Chin, frightened of Dato' Gopal Sir Ram's new found
conscience, decided Dato' R.K. Nathan instead should be Supreme
Court judge after Tan Sri Edgar Joseph Jr retired. He was not.
Tun Eusoff retired. Dato' R.K. Nathan transferred to Penang.
The Conference of Rulers holds up Dato' Gopal Sri Ram's
preferment to the Supreme Court.
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| 2002-07-24 | Two Leaders Who Succeeded, Only To Fail
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| 2002-07-14 | Anwar Ibrahim, Reformasi And the UMNO Dilemma
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| 2002-07-12 | Politics, Not Law, Continues An Injustice
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| 2002-07-03 | Be an ambassador or be sacked and jailed But harsher methods are also used. A sitting High Court Judge was threatened with medicines which could induce a heart
attack if he did not admit he wrote a scurrilous letter about the
goings on in the judiciary under the former chief justice, Tun
Eusoff Chin. He caved in. And left the judiciary. Tun Saleh
went because the government found an independent judiciary
inimical to its continuance in office. This judge had to go
because he stood up in a judiciary that caved in so completely to
political demands. Judges became the handmaidens of business men
and industrial tycoons and went after those their friends wanted
destroyed. It was not only in the judiciary. Every institution
of government is tampered with, and those who stood up to what it
stood for, found themselves out by the ear. When the
government's credibility depends on the strength of its
institutions, they cannot deliver. And face the consequences.
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| 2002-05-22 | Police wrong, but do a good job, says MIC leader
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| 2002-05-17 | Anwar Ibrahim and the "Big Secret"
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| 2002-05-05 | Clash between ministers over traffic offences
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| 2002-05-04 | The fiasco over traffic summons descends into farce
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| 2002-05-02 | Highly-Efficient Police Inefficiency
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| 2002-04-30 | Berserk over Incest
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| 2002-03-31 | No general elections until 2004, says PM The events of 1998 destroyed UMNO's self-confidence,
especially when it allowed the Anwar imbroglio to fester and seep
into the Malay cultural conscience that it now threatens to
consume him and UMNO. It is now clear, as revealed in Dato' Seri
Anwar Ibrahim's Federal Court appeal against his conviction and
jail sentence for sodomy, that the High Court Judge was
prosecutor and judge with the clear idea from the start the man
must be convicted. It now appears, on the words of his principal
accuser, that he lied about Dato' Seri Anwar committed sodomy
with him. More than that, it is clear to the Malay, that he was
convicted so he could be humiliated. When the Prime Minister
broadcast to the world of his deputy's guilt, a fair trial was
not possible. Mr Justice Augustine Paul broke the High Court's
sentencing convention by refusing to allow bail pending appeal,
and for sentence to start from his arrest instead of from the
date of his sentence.
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