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AG: Tribunal not ‘court of law’, not accountable to technical rules

Attorney General Tommy Thomas speaks during a tribunal hearing on the misconduct of former Election Commissioners at the Asian International Arbitration Centre in Kuala Lumpur February 28, 2019. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri

He was weighing in on the set of a special tribunal seeking the removal of six former Election Commission members instead of accepting their resignations. “When the five members deliberate, they must remember they are not judges or former judges, but a tribunal. You have to be far more open and not account to technical rules,” he said before the panel at the Asian International Arbitration Centre here.

 

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