The Judiciary Stinks, But Not In My Area Of Practice??
None other than a former chief justice, Tun Mohd Dzaiddin Abdullah, recently denounced Malaysia's judges as being "subservient to politicians in the executive arm of government". His reasons I will leave readers to determine for themselves. What is of interest to this writer though is the comment by the current president of the Malaysian Bar Council, Lim Chee Wee , who is reported to have said "for commercial cases, Malaysia’s judiciary system was credible enough to handle cases from the region." “But the ultimate test is of course when it comes to politically sensitive cases or religious cases and how our appellate courts deal with it. “On that score, I still give them a minus because so far as religious cases go, the conversion cases, there is a fear by our appellate courts in having to make a decision. They keep postponing, the controversial cases just being postponed, then there is of course the Perak crisis,” he said. Lim's area of practice is -commerc...