During the cataclysmic events of 1988 while the tribunal was sitting in judgment over Salleh Abas, a story going around among lawyers was that when Salleh was appointed Lord President of the Supreme Court over Wan Suleiman Pawanteh (who was his senior in civil service) he had gone to see Wan Suleiman and ask for his forgiveness.

A few months later after Wan Suleiman, George Seah, Azmi Kamaruddin, Wan Hamzah Mohamed Salleh and Eusoffe Abdoolcader had themselves been subject to disciplinary proceedings by another tribunal and Wan Suleiman and George Seah dismissed, for failing to attend a Supreme Court sitting in Kota Bahru and instead staying back in Kuala Lumpur to hear the appeal by Salleh to quash the sitting of the tribunal against him, I met Wan Suleiman one Sunday morning in Lake gardens.