KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 -- Malaysia will now be looking at the way judges are appointed in four countries including the UK and Singapore, as part of efforts to consider how the country's judicial appointments system can be reformed.

The Prime Minister's Department's Legal Affairs Division (BHEUU) announced this following a preliminary discussion today between Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said with the heads of two parliamentary special select committees.

"Among other things, this discussion agreed to carry out preliminary comparative research about the approaches of the judicial appointment systems in several selected countries, namely the United Kingdom, India, Austr...