COMMENT The battering ram strategy projected by Anwar Ibrahim’s legal team against the legal version of the ‘Stonewall Jackson’ tactics of the prosecution enters its latest phase at the Court of Appeal today.

American civil war general Stonewall Jackson’s name has been subsumed to describe tactics which entail standing like wall of stone in the face of barging pressure.

Against this stonewalling strategy, antagonists have little choice but to project a battering ram that they hope will bore a hole in the wall and collapse it eventually.

This appears to what Anwar’s lead counsel Karpal Singh and his team is up to, scouring every wall that the prosecution has placed in their path...