Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia today shot down several emergency motions moved by Pakatan Rakyat MPs, citing technical grounds as reasons for doing so.

First to be rejected was veteran opposition MP Karpal Singh (DAP-Batu Gelugor), who wanted to move an emergency motion to debate Chief Justice Zaki Azmi's confession that he had bribed court staff during his days as a lawyer.