Kuala Lampur, April 23 -- The Honourable Chief Justice of Malaysia Tun Tengku Maimun binti Tuan Mat delivered a speech entitled "Judicial Independence and Parliamentary Sovereignty - a Colossi of Roads?" which elicited both support and criticism.

A plain and objective reading of her Ladyship's presentation will disabuse any notion that the Chief Justice is advocating 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.

The Chief Justice neither makes such an assertion nor was there discernible any desire to promote her own virtues or character.

The arguments made in the paper highlights Constituti...