'Not only Malaysians are watching, the whole world is watching how this sodomy case is being conducted. With Internet, news spreads instantly.'
Court hears defence's bid to disqualify judge
Anonymous: The court of justice should remain a court where justice is not impaired by bias or prejudice, whether overt or covert.
Not only Malaysians are watching, the whole world is watching how the sodomy case involving Anwar Ibrahim is being conducted. With Internet, news spreads instantly; and those in the judiciary must practise impartiality. We simply cannot afford to be blind.
P Dev Anand Pillai: Although the defence is trying its best, the plan against Anwar has been executed. Umno and its followers are not bothered about the law as they are above the law. Nothing will change as long as we have a staunch Umno stalwart as the head of the judiciary.
It is the Umno's courts. That is what MCA, MIC, Gerakan and PPP have allowed them to do and yet these parties have the gall to tell the people to vote for this regime. So whether the world is watching or not and whether it is a contravention of the Judges Code of Ethics Act 2009, the judge and the judiciary will not be bothered.
They know that Karpal Singh will appeal and they would have prepared a quorum of judges by now who will throw out the appeal. So folks, only a mass-scale rebellion will be the answer, till then they do not care two hoots on whether the rakyat live or die.
Rolls-Royce: We so often talk about legal principles and rules of natural justice - the right to be heard and that the adjudicating or the presiding authority must be impartial.
This is where I find most confusing. If you have complaints against the police, you go to the police to make a report against the police. If you are not happy with a judge you go to him/her to apply for him/her to recuse or to disqualify oneself.
I am not a lawyer, but is this oxymoron?
By Election Fan: I just wonder how many of our judges from the High Court to the Federal Court is living up to the values and true spirit of judicial independence. Don't they have the sense of duty to uphold the law and the constitution, and to protect the country from being ruined by the corrupted regime.
Md Imraz Muhammed Ikhbal: Forgive me for being a layman on matters of law but I find it totally ridiculous and absolutely nonsensical to be expecting a judge to make an unbiased decision that concurs with the fact that he is actually biased and should therefore recuse himself.
Which biased person of sound mind on the planet would ever concur that he is biased? Wasn't this motion put forth at the earlier stage of the case and judge Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah denied that he was biased and insisted that he would continue to preside the case? So why would it be different this time?
More importantly, why the need for extra time to deliver the decision on whether to recuse himself? It takes no Einstein to figure, judge Zabidin needs the legally savvy con expert who is currently ill to get better and thereupon cook up some form of legal justification that is not so nonsensical to those feeble-minded Malaysians who still refuse to see that this entire trial is no more than a judicial sham and a charade to mask this blatant atrocity of justice.
Maitreya: Everybody is sick and tired of this ridiculous farce. Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan is businesswoman Mumtaz Jaafar's godson and Mumtaz is Rosmah's business associate.
Saiful has declared in open court that he conferred with Rosmah and Najib Razak - and then Musa Hassan's assistant Rodwan Mohd Yusof - before lodging a police report against Anwar.
And yet the prosecution, under the AG's instruction, proceeds with full force to jail Anwar as if murder and mayhem have been committed. Obscene.
Not Confused: Yes, another day in this tiresome farce. I agree that Karpal Singh and Anwar should explore every avenue to get justice (and that justice is seen to be done), but I fear that it will all be a waste of their time. The judge will never recuse himself.
Wira: It is not easy for any defence lawyer to argue in front of a biased judge. I salute YB Karpal for his gallant effort.
Anyway, I suspect that the reason why they 'masuk chamber' so many times during this trial is to avoid the embarrassment like in that MACC/Teoh Beng Hock case where someone can utter, in confounded desperation when cornered, that a dead body is heavier than a living one and then try a strangulation of himself using his own hands.
Keanjin: Will a new judge make any difference to this high-profile case? Who will make the final judgment? We know the answer. If you don't, ask Lim Guan Eng!
Confushius: I warned the wild life smuggler not to sneak in kangaroos. A few have escaped and gone feral. Funnily enough, you can see herds of them hopping around the compounds of our courts. Animal Planet should investigate this strange behaviour.
The world is watching Sodomy II, reminds Karpal
Cala: By Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah's own conduct in Sodomy II, he has failed miserably as a judge where fairness is expected from him. I wonder how he can resurrect himself to continue with the trial when all forms of norms have been ignored. The only honourable thing for him to do is indeed to bow out of the trial.
JBGuy: Some commentators here think Anwar is guilty as charged. Well, either they must have wax for brains or they prefer to buy the propaganda from the government. If the government is so sure of his guilt then let all evidence be accessible to the defence.
Why is the prosecution and their witnesses, including the impartial judge, are all so keen to hide the evidence from the defence?
True, sodomy is a matter between God and the individual, but since the government is willing to spend millions on it, it makes one wonder if the well-being of the rakyat is secondary to the government.
