Delays in issuing written grounds of judgment are not uncommon in complex cases. But when such delays extend well beyond established timelines, do they begin to affect an accused person’s ability to exercise a meaningful right of appeal?
From Enron to Carillion, corporate failures have shown that shared decisions carry shared consequences. The SRC civil case ruling raises a difficult question — why does that principle appear unevenly applied?
Suspended and retired Judge Hamid Sultan Abu Backer takes issue on constitutional grounds as well on the plight of former Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, jailed unrepresented, on Monday 23 August last year!