Tan Sri Md Raus Sharif and Tan Sri Zulkefli Ahmad Makinuddin should gracefully resign as Chief Justice and Court of Appeal President respectively to bring the constituional crisis over the two top judicial posts to an end.
When Raus was controversailly re-appointed as Chief Justice, he said his reappointment as Chief Justice was “unprecedented” but constitutional, that there was always a first time for everything, and that when something happens for the first time, there is bound to be many differences in opinion.
What is incontrovertible however is that re-appointment of Raus and Zulkefli to the two top judicial posts in the land had met with criticism and opposition – with the weight of juristic, legal and informed public opinion arrayed against them at the time of the re-appointments involving a former Chief Justice, a former Federal Court judge, a former Attorney-General, a former de facto Law Minister and the Malaysian Bar.
The graceful resignation of Raus as Chief Justice and Zulkefli as Court of Appeal President will allow a good start to much-needed judicial and legal reforms in the country.
(Media Statement in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 8th June 2018)
#1 by Sallang on Friday, 8 June 2018 - 2:39 pm
All APPOINTED top guns in the previous administration must resign. Otherwise be sacked.
If people who knows the law also ‘buat bodoh’, or is actually ignorant, then they need to be shown a Show Cause letter.
#2 by gofortruth on Friday, 8 June 2018 - 10:06 pm
Bravo!!!
#3 by gofortruth on Friday, 8 June 2018 - 10:12 pm
Check if they are not already sitting as directors in some GLCs!!!
By the way, why should public servants receive royal titles like Tan Sri while still on active public service?
Shouldn’t that be considered only after their retirement?
The same goes with active serving MPs and Duns.
#4 by good coolie on Wednesday, 13 June 2018 - 11:43 am
Sallang is right. May I go farther: question these judicial officers as to what they support: the Federal Constitution or their personal religious beliefs.