Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century

politics for the foreseeable future; at least until she is able to build up a more stable and resilient state structure that wil ...

11 Constitutional developments in Malaysia in the first decade of the twenty-first century A nation at the crossroads H.P. Lee* ...

party. These political events, including the Perak constitutional crisis, help to explain the current state of constitutionalism ...

iii. whither the malaysian judiciary Descending into disrepute The erosion of public confidence in the Malaysian judiciary has b ...

V.K. Lingam and the Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz pertaining to the fixing of a senior judicial appointment. It led to a public out ...

without this being unconstitutional either’. 9 On a mission to Malaysia, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention observed that ...

things as it deems fit to enable it to perform its functions effectively or which are incidental to the performance of its funct ...

( 5 ) A judge shall refrain from giving any public comment about pending or impending proceedings which may be heard before the ...

constitutional system to exercise discretionary powers. In an address to the Malaysian law conference in 2007 on the fiftieth an ...

the Conference of Rulers held back and Badawi agreed finally with the rulers to appoint Alauddin as chief justice (Malaya). Anot ...

The legality of the actions of the sultan was considered by the courts. 22 At first instance, the High Court in Kuala Lumpur hel ...

dissolves the Legislative Assembly, it places the sultan in a quandary. Whether to accede to the request of the Menteri Besar fo ...

doing what they supposedly do best – deliberate on the law, interpret it well and ensure that it promotes the most equitable and ...

tumult or public disorder, the retention and exercise of these legal weapons has increasingly become a matter of grave concern. ...

sour. The proclamation of emergency was to enable the imposition of federal rule over the state. 35 The 1969 state of emergency, ...

which has not been expressly revoked or annulled, there is a third way of terminat- ing its operation: the ordinance lapses at t ...

original Article 149 ( 2 ) provided that a law containing such a recital would automat- ically lapse on the expiration of one ye ...

The two-thirds majority has, since the attainment of independence of the Malayan, later Malaysian, federation in 1957 , been vie ...

vi. the politics of ‘islamisation’ Legal and constitutional dimensions A development which has significant implications for cons ...

are replete with Islamic features. Islamic practices are gaining ground. Islamic economic and religious institutions thrive with ...