Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah today officially retired as the ninth chief justice, saying that he was happy to have restored public confidence in the country's judiciary over the past two years and three months.

"If I am at all to be remembered, I would like to believe that this is my intangible achievement as Chief Justice. There are sceptics, I know...but I don't mind because I think I have achieved that," he said in an interview with reporters at his office.

He recalled that his main concern when assuming office o­n Dec 20, 2000 was to turn around a judiciary which had lost some ground.

Among subsequent changes he pushed for to improve public confidence in the judiciary were the introduction of the Fast Track systems in Kuala Lumpur high court's civil division and computerisation of recording system to free judges from taking notes in court, he added.

He said letters and feedbacks from his friends and colleagues, both local and overseas, convinced him that he had done a good job.

He said it will be "an overkill if I were to parade all the programmes that I have initiated and brought to fruition".