The Chief Justice's criteria for promotion of judges appears to be sound but in practice is unsound. How will he explain that a very senior judge, very conversant in law and having written some landmark judgements in the country still lacks the capability to be elevated to the Federal Court whilst new and junior judges having apprenticed under him are now above him?

I know a name that will ring a bell for those in the legal fraternity - Gopal Sri Ram. Here is a judge who calls a spade a spade in his judgement whether it involves the ordinary or the extraordinary.

We need such judges to uphold Malaysia's name in the global arena. The late Tun Suffian, the late Tan Sri Eusoffe Abdool Cader and a few others earned Malaysia a place in the international judiciary system.