Transmenu powered by JoomlArt.com - Mambo Joomla Professional Templates Club

©Bernama (Used by permission)

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 26 (Bernama) -- There is no crisis in the judiciary, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamad Nazri Abdul Aziz said today.

Speaking to the media after breaking fast with staff of the Legal Affairs Division of the Prime Minister's Department here today, Nazri said allegations that there was a crisis in the judiciary were the work of opposition parties who wanted to influence citizens not to have confidence in the judiciary.

He said this when questioned about the march by Bar Council members to the Prime Minister's office this morning to submit two memorandums, one calling for the setting up of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate a video clip showing a senior lawyer purportedly brokering appointment of judges and the other for the establishment of an independent judicial commission to appoint judges.

"They should go and check the facts first, verify the clip first. At the moment we do not know whether the tape is authentic. So we cannot jump to conclusion and lawyers are the people that should not jump to conclusions in the first place," he said.

He added that the government had formed a three-man independent panel headed by retired Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Haidar Mohd Noor with former Court of Appeal judge Datuk Mahadev Shankar and social activist Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye as the other members to conduct an impartial probe into the controversial video clip.

They will receive their appointment letters from Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak tomorrow.

Comments (0)

Subscribe to this comment's feed