Justice Zabidin Diah’s decision on July 16, 2009 allowing the defence pre-trial discovery of certain documents may be downloaded here. The order was on July 24, 2009 stayed pending disposal of the prosecution’s appeal to the Court of Appeal.
UPDATED! (With link to Zainur Zakaria v PP) I must apologize for the delay in giving this critique. The Court of Appeal gave its decision on July 2. I received the “Outline of Reasons” from Ngan Siong Hing only last Friday, July 17. Without him supplying me with a copy of the judgment of the [...]
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.
The Outline of Reasons delivered by the Court of Appeal on July 2, 2009 is here. The Court held inter alia: I. On the issue of legitimate expectation that the AG would not in any way partake in the prosecution of DSAI:
Encik Amer Hamzah Arshad ruminates on whether a court can stay a declaratory order and considers Zambry’s nudity.
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: … [...]
Like most, I have been following the whole debacle in the state of Perak and when I first learned that you’ll be hearing the case, I quickly asked around whether you were a “goodie” or a “baddie”. Those were my specific words. No one could tell me anything, so I made the conclusion that you [...]
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