News item in Malaysia Kini – July 24, 2009 I found this news item in Malaysia Kini – an online news portal: Speaker vs. Speaker: Police report over letterhead Humayun Kabir Jul 24, 09 Barisan Nasional state assembly speaker R Ganesan lodged a police report with the Ipoh district police headquarters accusing his Parkatan… Continue reading How to spot the Usurper between Ganesan and Sivakumar?
Category: Judiciary & Bar
The Court of Appeal’s “outline of reasons??? in Anwar Ibrahim v P P – a critique
Gobbledegook and regurgitation galore in the two written judgments of the Court of Appeal in Zambry v Nizar Jamaluddin
Prologue I shall start with an aside on the dictionary definition of the two words which feature in the title of this article. Gobbledegook means unintelligible language. Regurgitate means repeat information without understanding it. Regurgitation is the noun. After you have read the article you should have an inkling of what I am trying to… Continue reading Gobbledegook and regurgitation galore in the two written judgments of the Court of Appeal in Zambry v Nizar Jamaluddin
Sedition under the Law of this Country
Prelude – please read it before reading the article I write this article so as to apprise the people who, in the mind of the general public, have taken the law into their own hands through the harassment of law abiding citizens of this country with the threat of using the Sedition Act 1948 on… Continue reading Sedition under the Law of this Country
Do take the trouble to understand before you find fault with the judges of the Court of Appeal
Before you go about judging the judges of the Court of Appeal on their five minute oral decision which they handed down on Friday, May 22, 2009, please bear in mind the wise words of the most liberal of American judges, judge Learned Hand who once wrote – The Spirit of Liberty, p 110:… Continue reading Do take the trouble to understand before you find fault with the judges of the Court of Appeal
Do you know why the Federal Court is not giving a written judgment in the Perak debacle? (Updated)
The answer can be simply put. It is because Article 72 (1) of the Federal Constitution is written in unambiguous language which even a child can understand. As I have said before in an earlier article that the words, “The validity of any proceedings in the Legislative Assembly of any State shall not be… Continue reading Do you know why the Federal Court is not giving a written judgment in the Perak debacle? (Updated)
How to Judge the Judge?
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/03/06/how-to-judge-the-judge/ In The Sun newspaper, March 4, 2009, I read on page 1 this alarming report: “Ipoh High Court grants injunction sought by Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir and the six State Executive Councillors to stop speaker V. Sivakumar from convening any state assembly sitting. Court also ruled that Sivakumar’s five lawyers have no legal… Continue reading How to Judge the Judge?
Law and Politics Under Mahathir: Legitimacy, Challenge and Response
The paper attempts at explaining perplexing nexus between law and politics during the Mahathir years amidst swinging pendulum of legitimacy discourse – with human rights discourse on the one side and ‘developmentalism’ on the other – taking place in constrained but contested legal arena. Author: Marzuki Mohamad. Download
Legal Position In Relation To Competition In Malaysia
Malaysia does not have specific legislation regulating competition as yet. Except for provisions on general competition practices fo the communications and multimedia industry, there is no comprehensive regime governing competition. There are a number of related trading and consumer statutes which impact on competition and there are statutes which attempt to introduce the concept of… Continue reading Legal Position In Relation To Competition In Malaysia
Competition Regulation in Malaysia
Malaysia does not have a national competition policy. Only two sectors, namely the energy sector and the communications and multimedia sector have made legal provisions for competition policy. The implementation of competition policies in these sectors are still at fairly nascent stages. In other sectors, competition regulation is mostly undertaken at the sectoral level via… Continue reading Competition Regulation in Malaysia