“All is not well in the House of Denmark,” he remarked in a damning indictment of the Court of Appeal, which was then housed in Wisma Denmark along Jalan Ampang in Kuala Lumpur.
These courageous words were expunged and the then chief justice, sitting in the Federal Court, Eusoff Chin, asked, “Why should the learned judges of the Court of Appeal go on a frolic of their own and find fault with the High Court judge, criticise the conduct of the applicant’s solicitors in a very disparaging manner?”
That phrase from Shakespeare’s Hamlet may have been removed from the judgment and the official records but remains in perpetuity as a constant reminder of those dark days.
In the minds of many who yearned, campaigned, and succeeded to expose an unholy nexus between certain members of the Bar and the Bench, it is an era that should never be repeated – however hard the times are.
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