COMMENT A hale if not hearty-looking Gani Patail, who was removed as attorney-general on July 27 on ostensibly health grounds, appeared at his first public engagement, a Bar Council-organised forum, at which he virtually said that “what you see is what you get”.

What the audience at the forum on Sosma, the controversial new law on combating terrorism which critics say is being misused, and a ravening press got to see of the former AG must have fortified speculation that his removal was for other than health reasons.