Three years have passed since the controversial re-appointments of Tun Raus Sharif and Tan Sri Zulkefli Makinudin were thrust into public scrutiny. In 2017, the then Chief Justice and President of the Court of Appeal were appointed as additional judges in the Federal Court despite reaching the compulsory age of retirement encapsulated within Article 125(1)…
Introduction The FC recently delivered its judgment for the case of Maria Chin Abdullah v Director General of Immigration. In a 4-3 split, the FC has negated the existence of the basic structure doctrine in our Federal Constitution. The majority judgment delivered by Rahman Sebli FCJ has reversed decades of development in the landscape of…
Introduction The tremor of emergency grips the Malaysian soil once again. After witnessing yet another onslaught of COVID-19, it seems likely that a state of emergency shall be declared. However, should this declaration take place, it is also timely for another glaring reason – it would arm the Executive with a legal Infinity Gauntlet that…
“Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind. When a satirist is sued and a court attempts to ‘dissect the frog’, everyone tends to look foolish except the satirist.” – EB and Katharine S White, A…