The country's legal and judicial system will become a laughing stock if former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak is given a pardon, said former chief justice Abdul Hamid Mohamad.

In a statement uploaded on his official website today, Hamid (above) said should the Pardons Board agree to free Najib, it would also lay waste to years of painstaking work done by the MACC and judicial officials in building up a case against him.

"The MACC spent years...