APRIL 7 — The Sabah Law Society (“SLS”) is alarmed by the findings of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (“MACC”) that Justice Nazlan Ghazali had breached the...
APRIL 7 — The Sabah Law Society is alarmed by the findings of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission that Justice Nazlan Ghazali had breached the Judges’ Code of Ethics 2009 and had a conflict of interest, as reportedly stated by the Law and Institutional Reform Minister, Azalina Othman Said.
The MACC is a statutory body established pursuant to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 . The stated function of officers of the MACC is to, amongst other things, detect and investigate suspected offences under the Act, attempts to commit offences under the Act, and suspected conspiracies to commit offences under the Act.
Matters related to ethics and conflict of interest are dealt with in the Code of Ethics. Any complaint against Judge who is alleged to have committed a breach of the Code of Ethics shall be made in writing to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court and may be investigated by the Judges’ Ethics Committee, not the MACC.
The SLS takes note of the statement of the MACC’s Operation Review Panel Chairman that “When MACC receives a report or complaint on allegations of corruption, abuse of power or misappropriation, it is duty-bound to investigate.” This statement is in itself mostly correct.
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