Monday, January 09, 2012
Anwar Ibrahim bebas daripada tuduhan liwat
Friday, January 06, 2012
Perhimpunan 901 - apa kesudahannya?
Kita pasti polis akan mengambil langkah sewajarnya untuk mengawal keadaan secara berhemah dan akan cuba elak kekerasan. Ianya bergantung kepada sama ada perhimpunan itu diadakan secara aman atau tidak dan kita tidak ingin melihat ia bertukar menjadi satu rusuhan yang bakal ditonton seluruh dunia melalui siaran berita tv antarabangsa.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Anwar diperintah bela diri atas tuduhan liwat
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Zambry MB Perak yang sah, Mahkamah Persekutuan
Bagaimanapun, adalah difahamkan bahawa pihak Datuk Seri Ir Mohamad Nizar terima keputusan itu dan tidak akan mengemukakan rayuan semakan.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Kuasa pendakwaan di tangan Peguam Negara perlu dikaji semula
Perkara ini seharusnya diberi perhatian oleh Ahli-Ahli Parlimen kerana merekalah yang ada kuasa untuk meminda Perlembagaan jika ia dilihat sebagai perlu.
Ahli Parlimen perlu peka mengenai isu-isu yang besar dan penting seperti kuasa penentuan pendakwaan yang mutlak berada di tangan Peguam Negara.
Menteri yang bertanggungjawab berkaitan hal ehwal undang-undang dan urusan Parlimen juga harus memikirkan untuk mengusulkan pindaan Perlembgaan kepada Jemaah Menteri berhubung kuasa pendakwaan Peguam Negara.
Friday, March 06, 2009
Wujudkah pentadbiran (kerajaan) di negeri Perak?
Apa yang sedang berlaku di Perak juga mengaitkan soal pengasingan kuasa antara tiga cabang demokrasi yang diamalkan di Malaysia. Perkembangan ini merumit dan mencelarukan lagi keadaan.
Kemelut politik Perak sesungguhnya tidak memberi sebarang faedah kepada rakyat yang jelas menjadi mangsa ketidaktentuan sekarang.
Sekiranya kedua-dua pihak yang bertelagah, Pakatan Rakyat dan Barisan Nasional, benar-benar merasai bahawa merekalah yang betul, kenapa tidak pulangkan kepada rakyat? Rakyatlah yang mempunyai kuasa pemutus sama ada mereka mahukan pentadbiran Pakatan Rakyat atau pentadbiran Barisan Nasional.
Pihak Pakatan Rakyat telah memohon perkenan Raja supaya membubarkan DUN, kenapa pihak BN tidak mahu? Apakah BN takut mereka akan ditolak oleh rakyat dengan kekalahan yang lebih teruk?
Sudah tiba masanya bagi BN untuk tidak 'berselindung' kepada pihak Istana semata-mata untuk mempertahankan kuasa. Jika BN betul-betul yakin yang rakyat menyokong mereka, jangan takut untuk menghadapi 'mahkamah rakyat' melalui satu pilihan raya baru.
Saya percaya dengan adanya 'tokoh besar' BN Perak termasuk Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak atas sifatnya selaku Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan UMNO Negeri, "Ustaz" Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz, wanita keluli Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz dan Datuk Kamilia Ibrahim serta 'panglima-panglima perang' UMNO seperti Tajuddin Abdul Rahman, Datuk Seri Raja Ahmad Zainuddin dan Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali, BN sudah pasti tidak gentar untuk menghadapi rakyat.
Kejor Yob, kejor!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
The return of Datuk Seri Ainum Mohamad Said
In November 2001, Malaysia's first woman Attorney-General, Datuk Seri Ainum Mohamad Said, then 55, resigned "for health reasons", barely a year on the job as the government's chief prosecutor and legal adviser.
During her short stay at the A-G Chambers, her tenure was questioned by certain quarters not happy with her appointment. She was rumoured to be under investigation by the Securities Commission (SC) over duties performed as the deputy chief executive of the Commission. The SC then issued a statement denying it was investigating her.
It was no secret that Ainum's appointment as A-G, succeeding the late Tan Sri Mohtar Abdullah, though welcomed by the legal fraternity, did not went well with certain quarters. In fact, Mohtar "groomed" a certain high-ranking officer from the Judicial and Legal Service to succeed him.
As the A-G, Ainum was seen as a person of integrity and she administered the Chambers with a firm hand. Ainum had previously served the A-G Chambers as head of prosecution (third highest-ranking post) and as parliamentary draftsman.
Ainum had served 26 years in the judicial and legal service, before leaving in 1996 to join the private sector and later, the Securities Commission.
During her tenure as A-G, one of the "cases" being investigated by the police then was the allegations by former Election Court Justice Datuk Muhammad Kamil Awang that he was asked to throw out a case. Muhammad Kamil, in his judgement on June 8, 2001 declaring the 1999 Likas by-election null and void, said that he had been directed by a superior to dismiss the case without going into its merits.
Former Chief Justice Tun Eusoff Chin admitted making the call but said Muhammad had misunderstood the conversation as he (Eusoff) had only instructed him to expedite hearing the petition. (May I add... correct, correct, correct!)
Ainum's appointment coming so closely after the appointment of Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah as the Chief Justice of the Federal Court "marks the beginning of a new era in the aministration of justice and the rule of law" in Malaysia.
Writing in his "Benchmark" column in the New Straits Times, the late Federal Court Justice Harun Hashim said the appointments were a welcome relief from a period of confrontation and adverse criticism of the two establishments.
"There is much for the A-G to do. Ainum's appointment augurs well for the future. The public awaits with great expectations," Justice Harun wrote.
In November 2001, Ainum submitted her resignation letter citing health reasons, now, nearly eight years down the road, Ainum is back as one of the eminent persons to serve in the newly-established Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC).
Was she pressured to resign as A-G citing health reasons? Ainum is certainly in good health.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Tun Salleh was indeed dismissed
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, then prime minister, correctly said that the judges were dismissed as recommended by the Tribunal appointed pursuant to the Constitution of Malaysia by the Yang di Pertuan Agong (King).
The words used - removal and remove - meaning to dismiss and not as claimed by Nazri, the de-facto law minister.
However, the Mahathir administration was kind enough to approve pension payments to the judges concerned although, normally, it would not. Unfortunately, similar kindness was not extended to former High Court judge, Dato' Syed Ahmad Idid, who (anonymously) exposed corruption and wrongdoings in the judiciary and was forced to resign.
Like most of us, I am not aware that the judges were paid pensions handsomely and am disappointed that Tun Salleh said nothing about it until it was disclosed by a third party. And we are talking about transparency and honesty.
It is game, set and match to the judges, if I may say so.