Salbiah Ahmad

Should the law deal with technicalities or should it also be concerned with manipulation and abuse? SALBIAH AHMAD states her case.

Malaysians have witnessed enough controversial court cases in the past decade to wonder what judges are made of and how their judgments are shaped. SALBIAH AHMAD guides laypersons o­n how to judge judges.

The real war being fought the world over is o­ne for civil liberties including the freedom of expression, writes SALBIAH AHMAD, who suggests that this is the true path to peace.

Umno Youth's action in lodging a police report against malaysiakini for publishing an allegedly seditious letter has generated much debate. SALBIAH AHMAD goes o­n the offensive against suppression of free speech in the name of sedition.

There's a new poster boy for extremism and he isn't Osama bin Laden. SALBIAH AHMAD explains the legal outrage behind the re-arrest of a KMM suspect who had been freed by the court.

SALBIAH AHMAD is reminded by an author that 12 years after the celebrated collapse of the Berlin Wall, we are surrounded by fences yet again, cut off from one another, from the earth and from our own ability to imagine that change is possible.

As the Likas petition continues to haunt the recently unseated representative of the constituency, SALBIAH AHMAD compares performances of past election judges and argues for written judgments to be made even on preliminary objections as this will add to the transparency of court processes.

The landmark Likas election petition exposed the presence of phantom voters in the electoral roll. Inexplicably, the Election Commission then went about to make all certified electoral rolls unchallengeable. SALBIAH AHMAD recounts the Likas case and another unreported one to remind us the role that election judges play in safeguarding the system of representation.

From having to sign the Akujanji pledge to the UUCA's restrictions of speech, assembly and association, our university students are being 'rehabilitated'. SALBIAH AHMAD wonders if all these 'harassments' and policing build a generation of young people capable of facing the world on their own.

Off he goes to jail for exposing 'state' secrets, but Keadilan leader Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor (pic) has definitely freed a bunch of worms canned by the authorities. Drawing a parallel to Spycatcher , SALBIAH AHMAD argues that the reason for secrecy here has been overtaken by events and it is now a public interest matter.