The Character, attitude and mentality of Malaysian Judges

Palace of Justice remain mute

All the Chief Justice (CJ) and the judges in the Palace of Justice have managed t o make a mockery they have made of the law, farce run by those who are legal and intellectual frauds or what he has called “imposters”!They can “no longer mask their hyperbole judgments with unintelligible garbage”.

“Fools on the bench”

Malaysians are “stunned by the ignorance of our judges of the highest court in the land”,

Some judges cannot understand plain English

They are “inconsistent” and “dishonest” and “those ignoramuses” were talking “utter nonsense”. Those “inane judges cannot even understand plain English”!

“…do not know justice from injustice”

They “…do not know justice from injustice”, and that “such lowly individuals should never be allowed to sit on the seat of Justice…(and) to be judges at all. And yet there are so many of them in the judiciary today ever since the rot begun.”

“Our country does not need impostors, who pose as judges, to deceive the common people any longer. The common citizenry can now uncover the impostors hiding beneath the mantle of the judicature.”

The laws are not to be consonant with justice to be manipulated by them to uphold injustice

“With judges such as these in the Malaysian judiciary where, the principles of the law are not to be consonant with justice to be manipulated by them to uphold injustice, it is no wonder that the errant judges have forfeited the confidence of the people. “

“The general public does not respect such judges anymore!

“The general public does not respect such judges anymore! They have put themselves beyond the pale. Just like pariahs. Don’t you think they should be despised?”

If you appoint mediocre lawyers to the Bench you will get substandard judges

The “moral of this unsavoury episode” is this: if you appoint mediocre lawyers to the Bench you will get substandard judges. The solution to this problem is a simple one. Appoint judges from the cream of the legal profession and you will not find judges for incompetence.

Such was his cutting conclusion: “It is only when we have fools on the bench"

“Bunch of idiots in high places”

The “bad” and “perverse” judgments, especially those in the appellate courts, the collective written judgements which were “riddled with contradictions” and how the Perak and Federal Constitutions were toyed with and trampled on by the judges!

Judges do not seem to know the true meaning of separation of powers

During the Perak debacle there are “many of our judges today especially among those judges in the higher echelon of the judicial hierarchy who do not seem to know the true meaning of separation of powers in constitutional law. This is most apparent.”

The cases of the Perak imbroglio:

a) Bad judges — they “seem to think that independence means that they can do what they like”

b) Recalcitrant judges — “they think that words can mean whatever they want them to mean”

c) Humpty Dumpty judges — “they also think that they are independent of the legislature”.

Judiciary beholden to the UMNO dominated Government

Beholden the judiciary is to the Umno-dominated Government. so-called Perak crisis has brought out a host of cases that showed that the judges gave the impression that they were one-sided. The perception of the people is that they sided with the BN government.”

Perverse Decision

In the “shocking case” of Zambry v Sivakumar in the Federal Court, he judgment by the “infamous five” (judges) Alauddin Mohd Sheriff , Arifin Zakaria, Nik Hashim Ab Rahman, Augustine Paul and Ahmad Makinnuddin, a “perverse decision”.

Myopic judges

In the case of Nizar vs Zambry he called the panel of five Federal Court judges made up of the President of the Court of Appeal Alauddin Mohd Sheriff, Chief Judge of Malaya Arifin Zakaria, Zulkefli Ahmad Makinuddin, Ghazali Mohd Yusoff and Abdul Hamid Embong, “myopic judges”.

Confused Thinking judges

They “were lost in a quagmire of confused thinking caused by their own incompetence. They found themselves deep in the forest unable to see the wood for the trees. Does this mean that we have a bunch of incompetent judges who sit in the highest court in the land?”

Those in Perak were able to see for themselves how members of the judiciary had left behind a dead constitution, “bad” and “perverse” decisions, dubious declaratory orders, judgments devoid of reasoned grounds, and disgraceful double standards.

Blind and Biased Judges

Malaysian has “judged the judges”. They considers them, especially those in the appellate courts’ “ignorant”, “inane”, “incompetent” and even “idiots” (which he has strongly inferred).

The public shares his view. In their eyes the judiciary has allowed itself to be intimidated, its independence and impartiality interfered with, and its integrity reduced to ignominy.

Why is Palace of Justice so quiet over the severe criticism?

The judicial shenanigans whom Malaysians has criticised and castigated should also resign for having shamelessly sacrificed justice on the altar of political expediency.

Judges of being blind, biased and being a bunch of “idiots” and “fools”.

Judges must stop this wrong among themselves

“Bad guys” had better beware! Malaysians will ensure that their names remain in infamy for generations to come unless they recant the wrongs that they have done!

The quality of our judges is suspect

The next general elections as the only solution to an unsalvageable judiciary viewed by the public with greater suspicion, scepticism and even scorn. “At the present time and judging by what we have experienced so far from the Perak takeover cases, Anwar Ibrahim, conversion cases, corruption cases among politicians, high profile cases, minorities, indigenous cases, the quality of most of our judges is suspect”.

Conclusion

“In the meantime what should we do with so many bad apples in the barrel? If only there could be a change in government in the next general elections with the opposition winning by a landslide. Then we could get rid of all the bad apples by Act of Parliament.”