IS PRESENT SITUATION TENABLE?

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:22:26 +0100

My dear Zul With respect, as I wrote elsewhere just some time back, we had three good Lord Presidents in Tun Suffian, Raja Azlan Shah and Tun Salleh. Then we appear to have three successors, not necessarily straight successors, who were not so good. (No euphemism is intended in the use of the word straight.) What has happened to the culture that produced the three named above? That is what most lawyers and I would be more interested in since the restoration of that culture will ensure that future Chief Justices (as Lord Presidents are now called) will continue to be good for the good of the nation and all its peoples. For the moment, Zul, just ask yourself this question: "How could a High Court Judge who wrote seven judgments in seven years on the Bench be promoted to the Court of Appeal?" And then in the Apex Court during the next 12 years, he wrote 42 judgments. Significantly, as if there is method in such madness, he wrote seven judgments in seven years when he went to the Federal Court. So did we not know what we were getting when such a Judge was promoted? And how, staring us in the face is another Judge in the High Court who has spent 12 long years on the Bench without being promoted. So, even for Judges, justice can be elusive, right? I leave you with this question: Do we want such a situation to persist? Perhaps now, Zul, you know why 2,000 lawyers walked for justice on Sept 26, a September to remember for the rest of their lives. Yes, while we are at it, I know that that song, September to Remember, has far greater significance for a lot many lawyers now. (Very sloppy writing because it is not edited.) Stephen Tan Ban Cheng - Stephen Tan Ban Cheng

Be fair to all CJ

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:05:14 +0100

Why the study is made on Tun Fairuz alone, why not include other CJ like Eusoff Chin and Hamid Omar. This may help the reader to make a fair and objective conclusion rather than being a personal attack against him. It is also of help if the research team can make assessment against the current Chief Judge and President the Court of Appeal so that the public will know how learned they are if they become the future CJ Zulqarnain bin Lukman - Zulqarnain bin Lukman

Past LPs and current CJ's records of written judgments

IS PRESENT SITUATION TENABLE?

Be fair to all CJ

Past LPs and current CJ's records of written judgments