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| Tuesday, 06 January 2009 12:05pm | |
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KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Sri Azmi Kamaruddin, one of the former Supreme Court judges at the centre of the 1988 judicial crisis, died last night. He was 75. Azmi, who had been suffering from a blood disorder since August 2007, died at 9.10pm at Ampang Hospital in Pandan Indah, with his family by his side. He had been hospitalised for more than two weeks at Kuala Lumpur Hospital initially and at Ampang Hospital since Saturday. He was unconscious at the time of death.
Rembau-born Azmi, a product of the famed Kuala Kangsar Malay College, read law in London before returning home to join the public service in 1957. Starting as a magistrate, he worked his way up to the Supreme Court before being sacked, along with the then lord president Tun Salleh Abas, Datuk George Edward Seah, Tan Sri Wan Suleiman Pawanteh, Tan Sri Wan Hamzah Mohd Salleh and Tan Sri Eusoffe Abdoolcader, during the judicial crisis. Azmi and his colleagues were all vindicated last year when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced a goodwill ex gratia payment to them in acknowledgment of their "pain and loss". Funeral prayers will be held at his home in Jalan Mesra, Ampang, before Azmi, according to his last wishes, is interred at his parents' grave site at the Hulu Langat Muslim cemetery. Azmi is survived by his wife, Kamariah Yahya, three daughters and a son. Set as favourite Share Email This Comments (0)
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