Stand that principle on its head. Is a prime minister immune from a civil suit (e.g. a suit for breach of contract to buy a property)? What if he or she did enjoy such an immunity? What would happen?
Picture this: a prime minister stands before the highest court in the land, not as the nation’s chief executive, but as a defendant asking for shelter from the storm of civil litigation.
It is a scene that would have made Shakespeare reach for his quill - power that is seeking protection from the very justice it is meant to uphold.
Yet, here we are in Malaysia, watching this constitutional drama unfold as Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim asks our Federal Court whether...