It's not often that a neophyte parliamentarian gets to enjoy a brace of triumphs such as PKR MP for Padang Serai N Surendran has had in recent weeks.

Following hard upon the compliments judge V T Singham paid him in the A Kugan  custodial death judgment was the vindication delivered on Wednesday by judge John Louis O'Hara in a case of wrongful arrest that Surendran, with four other lawyers and a human rights activist, brought against the government a few years ago.

A third victory of sorts would be gained if Surendran obtains an overturning of the deputy speaker Ismail Mohamed Said's ruling that his reference to the Kugan case in his maiden address to Parliament on July 1 was out of order because the case was sub judice...