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 • Abdul
Malek laid to rest in Putrajaya
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Warisan
undang-undang tidak ternilai
• Dunia kehakiman
kehilangan tokoh bijaksana – Ahmad Fairuz
• Legal fraternity
mourns passing of Tan Sri Abdul Malek
• Jenazah Tan Sri
Malek disemadikan
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PUTRAJAYA: Justice Tan Sri Abdul Malek Ahmad was a “perfect husband and
father”, who regarded his six children as his most treasured and valuable
possession.
According to his wife, Puan Sri Roziah Sheikh Mohammed, the Court of Appeal
president who passed away on Thursday night after a long battle with cancer,
adored his children because he had them late in life.
“My husband always told me that he only got good things late in life,” said
Roziah.
“He married late and had children late in life but he was really happy and
grateful to have had us in his life.
“We too feel the same way about him. He may no longer be with us but my children
and I will always have him in our hearts and minds,” she said.
Roziah and the couple’s six children were at Malek’s bedside when he breathed
his last at 11.48pm after succumbing to a brain tumour.
She added that her husband, who had been warded at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital for
the past 10 months, underwent an operation in 2005 but had a relapse in July
last year.
The 63-year-old judge, who was the second-highest ranking judicial official in
the country, served as the president of the Court of Appeal since July 2004.
He had a distinguished career in the judiciary. He was a magistrate in Kuala
Lumpur in 1966, and through the years, had served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor,
Sessions Court president, High Court judge, Court of Appeal judge and Federal
Court judge.
Malek was laid to rest at the Muslim cemetery at Taman Wawasan, Precinct 20.
Among those who paid their last respects were Second Finance Minister Tan Sri
Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Deputy Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Chief
Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Sidek Hassan, Chief Justice Tun Ahmad Fairuz
Sheikh Abdul Halim and senior members of the judiciary.
Ahmad Fairuz, who paid tribute to “an old and close friend”, described Malek as
a dedicated and hardworking judge whose death has left “an irreplaceable void”
in the judiciary.
He said he had known Malek since joining the judiciary in 1967.
“We were close since our days as officers and worked together quite a number of
times. Both of us were working in Kuantan where he was the DPP and I was the
Sessions Court judge.
“We also served in the Attorney-General’s Chambers at the same time where he was
in the drafting and I was in the international law section.
“He was a true gentlemen and his death is a great loss for us,” he added.
The Malaysian Inner Temple Alumni expressed its sorrow at the death of its
president and to “one of the best brains in the Malaysian judiciary.”
“The idea to form the alumni was mooted by Tan Sri Malek who was our
inspiration,” said its secretary S. Radhakrishnan in a statement.
Radhakrishnan extended the alumni’s heartfelt condolences to Roziah and the
family.
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