Kuala Lampur, April 24 -- I read Philip TN Koh's "The (mis)reading of the Right Honourable Chief Justice of Malaysia's speech at the 24th Commonwealth Conference".

Then I read Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat's speech entitled "Judicial Independence and Parliamentary Sovereignty - a Colossi of Roads?" - again.

I must agree with senior lawyer Philip TN Koh, who is also Adjunct Professor, Universiti Malaya, that the Chief Justice did not advocate "a form of juristocracy, i.e. the judiciary being an unelected body embarking on a road to establishing judicial supremacy over elected officers that represents the sovereign will of the people."

Neither did the Chief Justice make "such an assertion nor was there discernible any desire t...