“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies,” so say Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their joint pamphlet titled The Communist Manifesto first published in…
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A week or two have passed. Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has filed for a royal pardon. She probably missed Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s favourite Chinese phrase the importance of always maintaining dignity. And I noticed that Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali doesn’t say…
The recent debate in social media and public forums regarding the press release of February 11, 2024 made by the president of the Malaysian Bar in response to the recent Federal Court decision to turn down Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s appeal rekindled the nostalgic feelings that used to endear the public towards the Bar in its…
The chorus to the 2007 hit single by Monkey Majik featuring the Yoshida Brothers goes “I need a change… ‘Cause it’s all gone wrong for me’… (I need) somebody else to lead me now.” The sentiment conveyed by the single reflects exactly the thinking of the more than 100 practising lawyers of the Malaysian Bar…
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We make reference to the Press Release of the President of the Malaysian Bar, Christopher Leong of the Bar Council on February 11, 2015, as well as the Press Release of the International Commission of Jurists on February 10, 2015, both of which concern the affirmation by the Federal Court of Malaysia on February 10…
