
PKR: Zaki's appointment a retrogressive step
It will not clear the accumulated judicial rot, according to PKR vice-president R Sivarasa, who also questioned the prominent lawyer’s close ties with Umno.

It will not clear the accumulated judicial rot, according to PKR vice-president R Sivarasa, who also questioned the prominent lawyer’s close ties with Umno.

The Hindraf legal adviser claims he is only doing what the government, opposition parties and civil society have failed to do for Indian Malaysians.




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Judge Zunaidah Mohd Idris made the ruling after the prosecution failed to submit the Tamil translation of allegedly seditious remarks by the Hindraf leaders.
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Bar president S Ambiga says today's EGM wants the support of judges in the lawyers' quest for judicial reforms in the country.



With lawyers from both parties agreeing to an adjournment, the strike-out application will only be heard in March next year.



The Lingam tape
However, the PKR
de facto
leader says he will first consider the commission's terms of reference and whether the members are credible.

If by definition a judiciary means an independent, incorruptible and neutral judiciary - then we don't have one, says former lord president Salleh Abas.
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A businessman files a police report claiming that Labuan MP Suhaili Abdul Rahman uses two MyKad. The latter, however, denies this.




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The Kuala Lumpur High Court quashes the perjury conviction and the 18-month jail sentence imposed on PKR vice-president Mohd Azmin Ali in 1999.

14th Law Conference
Emotions ran high as lawyers pondered bolder measures to force a judiciary-wide clean-up. This will be the Bar's top agenda at its EGM on Nov 22.