Kuala Lampur, July 9 -- In "When it comes to retirement age of judges, we aren't trendy", I wrote of former Chief Justice Tun Arifin Zakaria who said that the retirement age of judges should be increased to 70 years old by amending the Federal Constitution.

That was in March 2017.

More than a year later, eminent constitutional law expert, Prof Dr Shad Faruqi wrote in his column in The Star:

"The provision of the Federal Constitution's Article 125(1) on retirement age (66 years plus six months of possible extension) seriously hinders the ongoing internal effort to reform the judiciary.

"It is therefore recommended that in line with many other countries, the age of retirement of our superior court judges should be extended. The most ext...