Jailed former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim today said that the Court of Appeal president Lamin Mohd. Yunus had "strayed from the legislative point of view" in passing his judgement via a summary statement this morning.

Anwar today lost his appeals against his April 1999 conviction on four corruption charges and six-year jail sentence.

"According to him (Lamin), my release will create problems for the security forces!" Anwar said in a press statement (in Bahasa Malaysia) to reporters, handwritten minutes after the court was adjourned at 9.20am.

Anwar quoted the words of former Chief Justice Tun Suffian Mohd. who, on March 10 this year said, "... the public perception is that the judiciary as a whole can no longer be trusted to know their oath of office. ... I wouldn't like to be tried by today's judges, especially if I am innocent."

Anwar, however, added that he would go all out to appeal and seek justice using the legal process, despite the existing limitations.

"The people will judge themselves whether the judiciary is independent and just," he said, adding that he would now seek an appeal at the Federal Court.

The three-member Court of Appeal panel, which included judges Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and Mokhtar Sidin, dismissed both the appeals against Anwar's conviction and six-year jail sentence, in just two sentences (while a 59-page written judgement was distributed to reporters later).

Meanwhile, Anwar's counsel Gurbachan Singh told reporters outside the courthouse this morning that the defence had not expected the Court of Appeal's decision.

He added that the defence was also surprised by the two-sentence judgement uttered by Lamin.

"This does happen sometimes, but the court would normally read the grounds (unlike today's decision)," he said.