Law lesson ... be fair

Everyday we learn something new. Me don't know much about law but then again justice not only must be fair but must seem to be fair. How could our learned JC decided on this....
Judicial Commissioner Ridwan Ibrahim ruled in chambers yesterday that Sivakumar could not act for himself.

This is from NST.
..... about Perak DUN speaker Mr Sivakumar.

Sivakumar, who arrived at the High Court building at 9.45am, attempted to speak to Zulqarnain but was given the cold shoulder. Zulqarnain ignored him and entered the courtroom. When approached by Sivakumar in the courtroom, he declined to respond. "You represent me. You should talk to me," Sivakumar told him.

However, when asked by lawyers representing the three independent assemblymen to sit with them, Zulqarnain moved to sit with them, away from lawyers who appeared as "friends of Sivakumar".

Sivakumar confirmed the incident, saying that a friend pointed Zulqarnain to him as the counsel representing him.

"I have never seen him. I don't know who he is. I don't know his name and he has never made any appointment to speak to me. I have so many questions for him," he said. read more here

This is from star.
Earlier, Sivakumar, who was waiting for his case to be called, was seen approaching assistant state legal adviser Zulkarnain Hassan, who had entered the courtroom at about 9.50am, but Zulkarnain avoided speaking to him and was later seen sitting with lawyers acting for the three independents.

A frustrated Sivakumar claimed that he tried to speak with Zulkarnain after friends identified him as his representative.

“But when he (Zulkarnain) came in, he refused to talk to me. I wanted to ask him so many things.

“I don’t even know his name or who he is. I don’t know who is (to be) my lawyer,” said Sivakumar. Read more here

makes me really wonder!!!! where the fair play?