Outgoing Chief Justice Zaki Azmi has denied having had any control over judges, nonetheless he could have simply done so.
If we wanted to change anyone we could have simply tranquil a immature judges or a Judicial Commissioners because they wanted promotions, yet we never tranquil them, he pronounced in an interview with Bernama.
Zaki, 66, who is set to retire subsequent month, had risen dramatically up a ranks - from a practising lawyer to a Federal Court decider in 2007 and, a year later, to Chief Justice.
He remarkable which younger judges had motionless opposite a government in several cases, including a Perak constitutional crisis - where Zambry Abd Kadir of BN as well as Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin of Pakatan Rakyat had battled it out in justice to be spoken a menteri besar.
They motionless opposite a government yet it was reversed by 3 Court of Appeal judges, as well as they have been some-more gifted than a immature judges.
So whose preference should you accept? The preference of a immature judges or which of a 3 gifted judges?
I do not manipulate. we think of Allah. That's some-more important. If we am unfair or confirm but following a law, afterwards we am obliged to Allah. To me that's some-more important. Not money or whatever.
He reiterated which he has never presided over any Umno-related cases during his tenure as a judge, nonetheless he was among a pass Umno lawyers before his appointment.
Even yet we was not in Umno, we did not do it. In fact, after we became Chief Justice as well as Court of Appeal President, we was not concerned in environment up a panel of judges. we asked a former Court of Appeal preside! nt, Alau ddin Mohd Sheriff, to do it.
I did no! t wish t o know who was a judge, win or remove we did not care. In fact, in a Felda case we heard, we motionless opposite Felda as well as systematic them to pay RM11 million in damages.
Improvements in judiciary
In a interview, Zaki highlighted his feat in clearing tens of thousands of reserve cases from a 1990s.
Adding which it was his primary objective when he took up a post, Zaki pronounced that, with a practice of some-more High Court judges as well as benefit of improved recording equipment, cases were likely of sooner.
He additionally pronounced which a relationship in between a judges as well as a Bar Council had improved tremendously over a past 3 years, following a changes which were implemented.
However, asked if a speedy approach has changed open perception of a firmness of a courts, Zaki said: (It's) is harder for me to prove... yet from a slander, letters we received, complaints of judges being unfair or office losing files have been severely reduced, (there are) almost none now. - Malaysiakini
If we wanted to change anyone we could have simply tranquil a immature judges or a Judicial Commissioners because they wanted promotions, yet we never tranquil them, he pronounced in an interview with Bernama. Zaki, 66, who is set to retire subsequent month, had risen dramatically up a ranks - from a practising lawyer to a Federal Court decider in 2007 and, a year later, to Chief Justice.
He remarkable which younger judges had motionless opposite a government in several cases, including a Perak constitutional crisis - where Zambry Abd Kadir of BN as well as Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin of Pakatan Rakyat had battled it out in justice to be spoken a menteri besar.
They motionless opposite a government yet it was reversed by 3 Court of Appeal judges, as well as they have been some-more gifted than a immature judges.
So whose preference should you accept? The preference of a immature judges or which of a 3 gifted judges?
I do not manipulate. we think of Allah. That's some-more important. If we am unfair or confirm but following a law, afterwards we am obliged to Allah. To me that's some-more important. Not money or whatever.
He reiterated which he has never presided over any Umno-related cases during his tenure as a judge, nonetheless he was among a pass Umno lawyers before his appointment.
Even yet we was not in Umno, we did not do it. In fact, after we became Chief Justice as well as Court of Appeal President, we was not concerned in environment up a panel of judges. we asked a former Court of Appeal preside! nt, Alau ddin Mohd Sheriff, to do it.
I did no! t wish t o know who was a judge, win or remove we did not care. In fact, in a Felda case we heard, we motionless opposite Felda as well as systematic them to pay RM11 million in damages.
Improvements in judiciary
In a interview, Zaki highlighted his feat in clearing tens of thousands of reserve cases from a 1990s.
Adding which it was his primary objective when he took up a post, Zaki pronounced that, with a practice of some-more High Court judges as well as benefit of improved recording equipment, cases were likely of sooner. He additionally pronounced which a relationship in between a judges as well as a Bar Council had improved tremendously over a past 3 years, following a changes which were implemented.
However, asked if a speedy approach has changed open perception of a firmness of a courts, Zaki said: (It's) is harder for me to prove... yet from a slander, letters we received, complaints of judges being unfair or office losing files have been severely reduced, (there are) almost none now. - Malaysiakini
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