KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Bar Council should not behave like the opposition by marching to the Prime Minister’s Office to hand over a memorandum calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the judiciary, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz said.
The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department said there were other proper ways for the memorandum to be submitted to the Prime Minister.
“They can set up an appointment and send a delegation to meet the Prime Minister,” he said.
He was commenting on the Bar Council’s plan to march from the Palace of Justice to the Prime Minister’s Office to submit the memorandum tomorrow.
The plan was made at the council’s emergency meeting last Saturday to discuss the controversial video clip of a lawyer supposedly talking to a senior judge over the brokering of the judge appointments.
Nazri however said the lawyers were free to hold the march as long as it was a peaceful one.
“That is entirely up to them but they should consider the stature of lawyers who are officers of court.
“Unless they want to show their hostility, why should they stoop so low by behaving like Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), DAP and PAS?” he said.
Bar Council president Ambiga Sreneevasan said the call arose out of the council’s belief that the independence of the judiciary was the highest ideal that it must “cherish and be prepared to stand up for.”
“In any event, how can the call for strengthening of the Judiciary be only the position of opposition parties when surely it must be the Government’s stand too,” she said.
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