Of these 27 years, 12 were as Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak and he served nine short but scintillating months as the Chief Justice of our apex court.Sabahans will fondly remember him as the first trailblazer from the state to sit on the High Court, Court of Appeal and Federal Court.
Last week, he wrote a monumentally important, trailblazing judgment that the double presumption of guilt in the Dangerous Drugs Act is unconstitutional. In the Sandakan High Court, he introduced the computerisation of courtwork long before peninsular courts embraced this modernity.He allowed video conferencing, recording of evidence and transcription in his courts. This avoided the need for judges to copiously record every word a witness said.
He introduced a consultative committee comprising the judiciary’s top four, the three Bars and the Attorney-General’s Chamber. He issued transparent directions on how courts will be empanelled and introduced e-balloting for empanelling judges at the Federal Court, thus avoiding any allegation of judge-fixing.
In the remote areas of Sabah and Sarawak, where legal literacy is low, institutional resources and transport are unavailable and the rays of justice do not reach the poor rural folk, he started an outreach programme of mobile courts to help citizens with such matters as birth certificates, ICs and small claims.Court officials and volunteers bring along used clothing, books, toys, workbooks and school uniform for the rural children.
Welcome back to our state of Borneo !!! Anak jati Borneo !!!
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