COMMENT In one ancient fable, a frog falls into a pail of milk. Unable to scramble out, the creature thrashes around, seemingly drowning. Eventually, however, his frantic struggles churn the milk into butter - and he hops away.

The lawyers for Anwar Ibrahim are hoping for something like the successful coda to the above struggle when they try today for probably the last time to disqualify senior counsel Muhammad Shafee Abdullah from prosecuting the appeal of the Sodomy II acquittal.

The appeal is scheduled to be heard at the Federal Court tomorrow and the day after (Feb 12-13)...