The Malaysian Bar was given the green light today to pose five out of six constitutional questions to the Federal Court regarding the controversial appointments of Chief Justice Md Raus Sharif and Court of Appeal president Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin past the mandatory retirement age of 66 years and six months.

This was after Justice Azizah Nawawi of the High Court in Kuala Lumpur allowed the Bar's application to pose the questions to the apex court.

The Attorney-General's Chambers did not object to the application by the Bar. Instead, it posed one of the questions and rephrased some of the earlier questions by the Bar...