Former Bar Council president Abdul Fareed Abdul Gafoor is among 23 individuals appointed as judicial commissioners effective today.

They took their oath of office before Chief Justice Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh, Chief Judge of Malaya Hasnah Hashim, Chief Judge of Sabah, Sarawak Azizah Nawawi and Court of Appeal president Abu Bakar Jais at the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya today.