Former Federal Court judge Gopal Sri Ram today rapped the judiciary for repeatedly striking out lawsuits involving the prime minister acting as if 'the government can do no wrong'.

“The present crop of judges […] find it a terrible nuisance to bother the government with all these suits.

“And therefore they (see these suits as being) vexatious and frivolous and should not have been brought to court in the first place.

“The old maxim now lives but in different words, ‘the king can do no wrong’ has now become ‘the government can do no wrong’. It’s sad,” said Sri Ram.

He said this in his keynote address entitled 'Challenging the constitutionality of pre-Merdeka law' at the opening of the Selangor Bar’s new auditorium in Kuala Lumpur...