Perak: Cooperating for a solution
Two blogging lawyers whom I know have written on the Perak issue. The Blogger Smalltalk has written 17 times on the Perak issue. Lawyer Kampung has given his gloss on the same issue.
Smalltalk approaches the issue more from a legalistic angle. Thus he asked why the Nizar vs, Zambry case was not distinguished from the Kalong Ningkan case of Sarawak. If anyone were to read the judgement, it is a fairly long one.
By distinguishing, we understand it to mean, identifying facts and features that will allow us to reach a different decision. The Ningkan case was decided in favour of the plaintiff, Ningkan. The judgement which we would have wanted is decision in favour of Zambry, distinguishable on a number of facts so succinctly pointed out by Smalltalk.
Lawyer Kampung's idea, to me is more practical and politically feasible. We shall expand on this later.
I was talking to a friend yesterday about the impending judgement. The conversation took place before the judgement. I volunteered that Zambry will lose and judgement will be in favour of Nizar. My friend retorted- how could that be? We need not be bound by the laws set long ago by our colonial masters. We must rewrite our laws now.