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Latest Malaysiakini report:
Sarawak High Court judge Ian Chin sent shock waves through the legal fraternity when he exposed incidents of executive interference dating back more than 10 years.
The revelations were made at the start of an election petition hearing yesterday, over which he is presiding.
He implicated former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and former chief justice Eusoff Chin – two key personalities in the VK Lingam tape scandal which had recently rocked the country’s judiciary.
Source Malaysiakini
One story after another keeps popping up every now and then regarding the judiciary scandal, bringing more disrepute to the whole nation and the BN …read more

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I had predicted that the present BN Government will not release the Royal Commission report on VK Lingam video scandal to the public and also will have no political will to pursue and prosecute those allegedly involved in the shameful judiciary scandal.
I had been proven wrong on the former but yet to be proven wrong on the latter. The Government had agreed to make the report public…
The four-volume report will be sold at RM542.10 and be available next week from the government printers.
While volume one – which is the report itself – has only 191 pages, volume two containing …read more

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The cabinet will decide on this coming Friday whether or not the VK Lingam video report, which had been submitted by the 5-member inquiry commission to the government recently, will be made public.
The five-member inquiry commission set up to probe the ‘Lingam Tape’ handed over its 186-page report, which contains four recommendations, to the King last Friday.
Its chairperson Haidar Mohd Noor is also in favour of the findings being made public.
According to Star, the commission has determined that it was former chief justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim who was talking to senior lawyer VK Lingam on the phone, and …read more

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Following the royal commission’s revelation that the VK Lingam video is authentic, Star Online’s report that the heat is on Lingam is not quite true.
Of course, the heat is not just on Lingam. The heat should also be on everyone mentioned in the video as well as on Mahathir who was the PM when the entire scandal took place. Having said that, the heat is also on Pak Lah, as current PM, to take actions as recommended by the royal commission. Zaid Ibrahim also should feel the heat as he is now the minister in-charge of judiciary.
Pak Lah and …read more

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Still remember VK Lingam? The man who was caught on camera and said ‘looks like me, sounds like me‘?
Well, the royal inquiry not only found the video clip as authentic, but had also positively identifed the man in the video as VK Lingam and he was in fact talking to Ahmad Fairuz.
Malaysiakini reported:
In a front page headline, the influential Star newspaper said the inquiry panel identified former chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim as the man on the other end of the line with senior lawyer VK Lingam in the 2001 clip.
Source: Malaysiakini
Although VK LIngam denied as reported by …read more

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