{"id":1254,"date":"2009-11-11T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T03:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/11\/malaysian-justice-system-into-shameful-disrepute\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T03:54:05","slug":"malaysian-justice-system-into-shameful-disrepute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/malaysian-justice-system-into-shameful-disrepute\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian justice system into shameful disrepute"},"content":{"rendered":"<address>By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani <\/address>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 \u2013 The Bar Council said today it was disheartened by the government\u2019s\u00a0 position in the V.K. Lingam controversy which it said had brought the Malaysian justice system into shameful disrepute.<\/p>\n<p>Bar Council president Ragunath Kesavan said today that he was appalled at the government\u2019s stand that no wrongdoing could be established in the probe into the V K Lingam video clip incident.<\/p>\n<p>Lingam, a senior lawyer, had been secretly recorded on video engaged in a telephone conversation where he appears to be brokering senior judicial appointments.<\/p>\n<p>The video first surfaced in 2007 and became a major campaign issue in Election 2008 for the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz sparked an uproar in Parliament on Monday when he said \u201cjudiciary fixer\u201d Lingam had been let off the hook \u201cbecause he had broken no law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nazri also suggested that Lingam breached no laws as he might \u201chave just acted to fix the appointment of judges as if he was brokering the appointment of senior judges to impress people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysian Insider reported Nazri argued that from the legal perspective Lingam could have merely made a suggestion as to who should be appointed to senior posts in the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>A royal commission had proposed that action be taken against Lingam and several others purportedly involved in the recording including former Chief Justice Tun Eusoff Chin, Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and tycoon Tan Sri Vincent Tan, a close friend of former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.<\/p>\n<p>Nazri revealed that investigations by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on the figures named also found no conclusive evidence that there was any form of power abuse by any of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch a simplistic and irresponsible conclusion is an affront to the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI)\u2019s commendable work of thoroughly and objectively sieving through the evidence presented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RCI found that wrongdoings had indeed been committed, and it further identified some breaches of statutes applicable to the circumstances,\u201d Ragunath said in a statement today.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Lingam\u2019s statement that he was able to fix the appointment of judges \u201cbrings into contempt the administration of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe video clip raises grave questions but there is also other evidence of serious misdeeds, for example Dato\u2019 V.K. Lingam\u2019s authorship of a judgment in a case in which he had himself appeared as counsel for one of the parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother example is the clear evidence of the joint New Zealand holiday taken by Dato\u2019 V. K. Lingam and then-Chief Justice Tun Eusoffe Chin and their respective families, which wholly discredited their claims for many years that they had met only by chance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ragunath stressed that these incidents must be investigated to determine if the allegations were true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened has undoubtedly brought the Malaysian judicial institution into shameful disrepute.\u00a0 To now say that no laws have been broken and to classify the affair as \u2018No Further Action\u2019 is to selectively and arbitrarily apply justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tragic irony will not escape the Malaysian public \u2013 the very system of justice that Dato\u2019 V. K. Lingam has been found to have abused and made a mockery of now refuses to mete out justice against him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pakatan Rakyat MPs yesterday presented the alleged key witness that may support their claims that Lingam and Eusoff had planned their New Zealand trip together.<\/p>\n<p>They had hoped the alleged key witness, Lingam\u2019s former secretary Jayanthi Naidu, would prove that the government was attempting to cover up the scandal which has raised suspicions about possible collusion.<\/p>\n<p>However Nazri refuted today that Jayanthi was the witness that MACC was looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 \u2013 The Bar Council said today it was disheartened by the government\u2019s\u00a0 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