For a little Sunday sweets, LB is reproducing a 2008 interview of LoyarBurokker Edmund Bon in NST's Sunday People. Find out in this interview by Intan Maizura Ahmad Kamal what makes Edmund tick as he delves into what exactly is it that he does.
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Tags: Bar Council, Edmund Bon Tai Soon, Human Rights, Judiciary, law reform, National Young Lawyers Committee, NGOs
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This article was published yesterday in The Sydney Morning Herald. LB is reproducing it due to its content value and relevance
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Tags: Barack Obama, federal solicitor-general, Judicial Appointments Commission, Judiciary
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Why I say it is so easy to expose our judges for incompetence – but this can only happen in Malaysia.
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Tags: Anwar Ibrahim, Fair Trial, judicial bias, Judiciary, NH Chan, Perak crisis, sodomy
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Malaysians making oral interventions on the Judiciary again. No amusing repetitions of "correct, correct, correct" this time, though.
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Tags: International human rights norms, John Payton, Judicial appointments, Judiciary, Minorities Declaration, NAACP, ratification, United Nations Minorities Forum, Voting Rights Act
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Was the UN Minorities Forum held in Geneva in November 2009 useful or just set piece theatre? K Shanmuga attended, and this is Part 1 of his report.
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Tags: Andrew Khoo, Bar Council Human Rights Committee, Forum, Jannie Lasimbang, Judiciary, MCCBCHST, Minorities Declaration, Minority Rights Group, Mutang Tagal, oral interventions, set piece theatre, United Nations Minorities Forum
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3 days to the MyConstitution Phase 2 launch, "Constitutional Institutions and the Separation of Powers", on Jan 15, 2010 at Sunway University College (4pm), Leslie Gabriel reminds us of the challenge which lies ahead to restore the concept of the separation of powers in this country.
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Tags: Arend Lijphart, Aristotle, Baron de Montesquieu, British Constitution, Dewan Rakyat, Executive, Federal Court, Government, Graham Spindler, Ikenga Oraegbunam, James Madison, John Alvey, John Locke, Judiciary, Kok Wah Kuan, Legislature, liberty-sensitive concept, Malaysian Constitution, MyConstitution, Prime Minister, Separation of Powers, Tricia Yeoh
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Tuan yang bijaksana, saya tak tahu apa yang mereka ajar di sistem kehakiman, tapi para peguam dah belajar semua ni masa jadi pelatih dalam kamar. Ooops pensyarah -pensyarah Civil Procedure dan Professional Practice saya pun pernah sebut perkara ni. Tuan tidoq dalam kelas kaa?
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Tags: Draft Orders, file search, judicial system, Judiciary, loyar, Magistrate, Mahkamah yang Mulia, PKP, professional practice
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Art Harun deconstructs Tun Zaki's new KPI-inspired leadership and shows it for what it is.
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Tags: Adjournment, Judiciary, KPI, Litigation, Tun Zaki bin Azmi CJ
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When I first read the news report in the Star that YAA Tan Sri Zaki, the Chief Justice, had told 2 errant High Court Judges to voluntarily resign, my initial reaction was one of pleasure. I thought it was good that the CJ has finally cracked the whip and told these useless Judges to...
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Tags: Judges, Judiciary, Tan Sri Zaki
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Fahri Azzat, who occasionally visits the Istana Kehakiman to do a bit of filing, breakfast and use the impressive toilets, shares his thoughts on the security machines and guards stationed at the entrances calling for the removal of both.
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Tags: "project", David Copperfield, Internal Security Act 1960, Istana Kehakiman, Judges, Judiciary, security, X-ray machines
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