The Court of Appeal judgment giving the sultan absolute power to dismiss the menteri besar is setting a dangerous precedent for a non-elected monarch to dismiss an elected head of state without going through the process of the state legislative assembly, said Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin's lawyer Leong Cheok Keng.
Court has set a 'dangerous precedent'
Will affect the separation of powers
Sunday, May 24, 2009
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