In my article yesterday I mentioned that it was during the scheduled sitting of the Supreme Court in Ipoh that the Lord President Salleh Abas finally decided to appoint a panel of nine judges of the Supreme Court to hear the Umno 11 appeal.

The Senior Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court was directed to notify the appellants' solicitors to:

Prepare additional records of appeal for the six extra judges;

Inform the parties' solicitors that the appeal had been fixed for hearing on 13 June 1988 in Kuala Lumpur;

These instructions were given in the presence of the late Hashim Yeop Sani and me.

We all know that a few days after this momentous decision, Salleh Abas was suspended as Lord President of the Supreme Court and the appeal of Umno 11 was not heard on 13 June 1988.