Ini adalah artikel kedua Amer Hamzah Arshad (salah seorang LoyarBurok) dalam kolum “Paksi Kata” di akhbar Suara Keadilan yang menyentuh mengenai krisis perlembagaan negeri Perak dan kepentingan perlembagaan di dalam kehidupan seharian. Ianya juga menerangkan mengapa rakyat seharusnya menghadiri pelancaran Fasa 2 Kempen PerlembagaanKu “Institusi Perlembagaan & Pemisahan Kuasa” pada Januari 15, 2010 di...
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Tags: Amer Hamzah Arshad, Federal Constitution, hak berhimpun, hak bersuara, judicial crisis, Kempen PerlembagaanKu, ketuanan Melayu, krisis kehakiman, Nizar, Perak, Perlembagaan Persekutuan, Sultan
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On 22nd October 2009, many were absorbed in reading the news about MCA’s attempt to resolve its internal fights. At the same time, 2 major items of news were overshadowed by that MCA story. First, the decision of our 1Public Prosecutor, the Attorney General, to close VK Lingam’s case despite the proposal of the...
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Tags: 1Malaysia, BN, Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi, MACC, Mohd Imran Abdullah, Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu, Perak, PKR, PR, Prosecutions
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Di dalam catatan bertajuk “Wajarkah?” yang terpapar pada blognya, penasihat undang-undang UMNO, Datuk Hafarizam Harun telah mengadaptasikan emel yang beliau terima (daripada seseorang yang meminta agar identiti beliau tidak dinyatakan), dan menyatakan persetujuannya (100%) dengan kandungan emel tersebut.
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Tags: "Wajarkah?", barrister, cab-rank rule, Datuk Hafarizam Harun, England, GLC, Pakatan Rakyat, pegawai mahkamah, peguam, penasihat undang-undang UMNO, penghinaan mahkamah, Perak, pro bono, syarikat milik kerajaan
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I am confused.
My mother is confused.
Everybody is confused.
Some months back, an older relative asked, “What is going on with Perak?”
The clan looked at me.
Exasperated, I shook my head and said I did not know. “I do not even want to think about it!”
Honestly, all I wanted to do was to spank whoever it was...
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Tags: debacle, freedom of expression, Perak, spank
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Post by a “Court Observer” received by LB.com just now:
IT is judgment day tomorrow for ousted Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin and his successor Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court will deliver tomorrow afternoon the much awaited ruling whether Nizar or Zambry is the rightful chief executive...
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Tags: Justice Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahim, Ningkan, Nizar, Perak, Zambry
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Pada ketika saya menulis artikel ini, “Speaker” yang “dilantik” oleh ADUN Barisan Nasional telahpun “menangguhkan” persidangan DUN Perak kepada satu tarikh yang tidak ditetapkan.
“Penangguhan” tersebut merupakan babak akhir rentetan peristiwa yang berlaku di Ipoh pada hari ini (Mei 7). Bermula dengan penangkapan begitu ramai rakyat Malaysia yang berkumpul di Ipoh, kemudiannya “perlantikan” “Speaker” haram...
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Tags: gelap, Malaysia, Perak, perampas-perampas kuasa, Speaker
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Someone asked, on an e-group, for an explanation of the recent court decisions in the Perak cases. I replied as follows, and thought I should share it with you (with minor editions), considering also the statements made yesterday by certain leaders of the “ruling” class about the state of our country:
All the on-going developments...
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Tags: business elite, cohorts, laws, Perak
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Majlis Peguam akan menganjurkan satu forum berkenaan krisis berPerlembagaan Perak pada 25 April 2009 pukul 12.00 – 2.00 petang di Auditorium Majlis Peguam.
Tajuknya Perak Crisis: Constitutional, Legal or Political?
Ahli-ahli panel forum ini yang telah dijemput adalah saudara-saudara Dr Subramaniam Pillai, Tommy Thomas dan Dato’ Shafee Abdullah.
Semua dijemput hadir. Sila daftarkan diri di sini.
Bangkit!
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Tags: Constitutional Legal or Political?, Krisis BerPerlembagaan, Majlis Peguam, Perak
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Raising several questions about the injunction obtained against Perak Assembly Speaker Sivakumar stopping him from convening “unlawful” meetings of the State Assembly. Does it apply to the “tree sitting”?
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Tags: Injunctions, Lawrence David Ltd v Ashton, Perak, Separation of Powers, Sivakumar, Vague Court Orders
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LB.com received this today. It was written by a person whose identity cannot be revealed, only to be known as “A Perak Voter”. And the person is not Lord Bobo. It is an important read.
MUCH has been said about the Perak constitutional crisis.
But let us compare this with the purported crisis that erupted in...
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Tags: Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir, Datuk Mohammad Nizar Jamaludin, Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, Terengganu
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