Apandi’s legal career dwarfed by his actions as AG

Chief justice credits Apandi for law career change

Negarawan: When we see both the CJ (chief justice) and AG (attorney-general) indulging themselves over a book filled with narcissism, when the legal authorities in seven countries are busy pursuing the perpetrators behind 1MDB, we can understand why the judiciary is a failure in Malaysia.

The legal authorities in these foreign countries are in fact carrying out the responsibilities which should have been shouldered by the CJ and the AG themselves.

Instead, the 1MDB case has been expeditiously closed in Malaysia, while various charges, arrests and trials are ongoing in other countries. The chief perpetrators behind 1MDB are Malaysians, yet all investigations have been suppressed within Malaysia.

The contents of the book ‘Fiat Justitia’ are certainly worthless and meaningless, because the performance of an AG or a CJ is as good as the last judgment they made.

Odin Tajué: CJ Arifin Zakaria, you have missed out on an extraordinary capability that this former judge would have one believed he possessed.

And it is, after surfing the Internet for no more than 30 minutes, then Court of Appeal judge Mohamed Apandi Ali had become an expert on Christianity, whereas ordinary mortals take four years of full-time study at a theological college before they could serve only as a parish priest.

Kingfisher: Admittedly the advice was “sound and insightful” in regards to the pursuance of a rewarding career in public service and a reasonable means for a livelihood.

In the final analysis, the measure of any one individual or everyman, it is the noble and forthright manner in which one acquits oneself in one’s functionary position that stand one in good stead and esteem with everyman both with and without the accoutrements of office as the say.

Best wishes to the honourable justices. A young nation like ours requires decent and dedicated professionals in position of influence in the conduct of its judicial system.

Gerard Lourdesamy: Frankly, most of Apandi’s judgments were uninspiring and largely compliant.

Indeed, nothing exceptional here as opposed to other more experienced judges on the bench who did not become heads of the judiciary.

Apandi’s judgment in The Herald case and his strained understanding of the Constitution and the exercise of ministerial discretion was shocking in that he allowed his private religious beliefs and the public sentiment of the Muslim majority to cloud his judgment in interpreting Articles 3 and 11 of the Constitution.

He is certainly no Lord Diplock or Lord Denning despite his amiable personality.

Ipohcrite: It is often said that any compliment given is only as good as the giver.

Notwithstanding that the giver holds a lofty position in the judiciary, the entire charade smacks of a cruel joke and a shameless display of flattery.

Anonymous 8231440077354: There is no such thing as justice in Malaysia. What is justice for you will be injustice for someone else. Usually the word “justice” is used to enforce revenge on someone – whether it’s legal revenge or illegal revenge.

If somebody does a killing, he thinks he has delivered what someone deserved. That’s why they do it. So, let’s not go by justice. Let us simplify the laws and enforce the law.

Right now, nobody has any right to think about justice. We must become a law-abiding society first; after that, the luxury of justice will come.

Sometimes when the law itself is cruel, we can break the law and deliver justice. But the way we are in this country, there is no luxury like that.

Here law must be enforced first. It may be unjust. This is because without a semblance of order, there will be no justice in any society.

Inworldnotof: I thought it was just the AG. Now the CJ wants to get in onto the act.

Maybe it’s the whiff of diabolical power that has intoxicated this crooner to produce such extraordinary expressions of love and longing. Things are getting downright bizarre.

They are losing it. Not just the chosen one, her and his tight coterie. The disease is obviously deadly in its contagion.

Hank Marvin: How can the head of judiciary lavish such a praise on a member of the sitting government? Is the CJ aware of what he is talking about?

Rick Teo: Reading the chief justice’s comments, I don’t know whether I want to laugh or cry. If he can give this sort of comments to Apandi, then he is not fit to be the chief justice.

I can only conclude that they are the same birds that flock together.

RR: We all know that these two are the best legal brains the country ever had.

Why the necessity for this publicity of the judgments of Apandi that were hardly referred to or cited in the subsequent cases in this country?

Fairman: Indeed, I can’t remember any lawyer citing the judgments of Apandi in superior courts in support of their arguments unlike the late Sultan Azlan Shah, Eusoffee Abdoolcader, Abdul Hamid Mohamad or Zaki Azmi.

On the Allah case, Apandi came to a controversial conclusion in the Court of Appeal on Islam as the religion of the Federation.

However, Arifin who led a seven-man bench declined to give leave to appeal on the use of Allah by the Roman Catholic Church. Leave ought to have been given as the Federal Court bench was split 4-3.

Anonymous 2401191456463140: The best judge is in the court of public opinion. I rest my case.

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