Zaid Ibrahim

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Zaid praises lead counsel Hisyam's 'passion', 'honesty', slams ... (Free Malaysia Today)

Senior lawyer Zaid Ibrahim was fulsome in his praise for Najib Razak's lead counsel Hisyam Teh Poh Teik after the two-day hearing in the Federal Court ...

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COMMENT | Was Zaid's unprovoked outburst justified? (Malaysiakini)

In the aftermath of the judicial crisis in 1987, when chief justice Salleh Abas and five judges were sacked, Zaid founded the Muslim Lawyers' Association and ...

“I believe that the prime minister (Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) is big enough and man enough to say that we had done wrong to these people and we are sorry,” he was then quoted as saying. Years later in 2008, within days of his appointment as Minister in the Prime Minister’s department, Zaid asked the government to openly apologise for its handling of the crisis. He was accused of setting it up at the behest of the then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to counter the Malaysian Bar’s critical stand.

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