Posts Tagged ‘ JAC ’

Arrogance Revisited

25 January, 2009
By Edmund Bon Tai Soon

Recently, the Bar Council quietly delivered its “Discussion Paper on the Need to Separate the Posts of the Attorney General and the Public Prosecutor” to the Government. This was off the back of public discussions on the position of the AG, and a passionate write-up by Mohamad Ramli Abdul Manan, a former senior ACA...
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Appointing and Promoting Judges on Merit

5 January, 2009
By Chen Mian Kuang

In the New Sunday Times on 21 December 2008, it was reported that our Chief Justice was thinking of determining the seniority of judges based on merit instead of time served on the bench. “Merit” would also be a relevant factor for the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) to consider in the appointment and promotion...
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The Judicial Appointment Commission – A Deformed Reform

24 December, 2008
By Art Harun

I have said it a million times before and I will say it again. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi just loves establishing committees and commissions just as he loves leaving, and probably living, in a jet plane! At a whiff of an issue or matter which has the minutest semblance of a complication, no matter how...
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