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KUALA LUMPUR: Former chief judge of Malaya Tan Sri Anuar Zainal Abidin passed away at 7.10 last night. He was 76.

He died of breathing complications at University Malaya Medical Centre. It is learnt that he had been suffering from skin cancer for the past 18 months.

He is survived by his wife, Puan Sri Azimah Mohd Ali, two children and two grandchildren.

Anuar was appointed chief judge of Malaya in 1994, a post he held before retiring from the judiciary in 1997.

He had served the bench for 33 years.

He earned the distinction of being the first judicial commissioner at the High Court of Malaya in 1978 and was appointed High Court judge of Kuala Lumpur in 1980.

One of his landmark cases included a ruling against Asian Rare Earth Sdn Bhd in favour of the people of Papan, Perak, in 1985 where a factory was found to have discharged large quantities of a radioactive substance - thorium hydroxide - in the area.

Anuar is also well remembered for his two-year tenure as a commissioner with the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) between 2000 and 2002.

Born in Gopeng, Perak, in 1932, Anuar attended Victoria's Institution in Kuala Lumpur and furthered his studies at Lincoln's Inn, England, where he graduated as a lawyer in 1963.

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