To say that the “tables have turned” would be too extreme to describe the attendance of two legal minds in the Kuala Lumpur Courts last week – albeit in the witness box.

Nevertheless, former chief justice (CJ) Zaki Azmi, 76, and former Federal Court judge and former attorney-general (AG) Mohamed Apandi Ali, 71, did just that – giving evidence from the witness box, the former as a witness and the latter as a plaintiff, in separate trials.

The two men, who have sat on the bench...