SLS president Roger Chin, in a statement on Wednesday went a step further, reiterating their previous call for the return of the authority and rights of Sabah and Sarawak, by restoring the power of the respective governors to appoint judicial commissioners provided for in the Federal Constitution prior to 1994.
To ensure the Commission is free to carry out its duties without any interests of other parties, he proposed the Prime Minister’s role of appointing members be given to other institutions such as the Bar Council, SLS, Advocates Association of Sarawak and the Parliament Committee of Selection. “SLS has said in the past and repeats the need and calls for more diversity in the constitution of the JAC and that moving forward, it can be considered that representatives from the three Bars in Malaysia of Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsula Malaysia be included on the JAC directly,” said Chin in his statement.
“As Article 122AB of the Constitution was passed in 1994 without the consent of the respective state government, it had contravened Article 161E of the Federal Constitution.
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