Be accountable, G100 tells Bar Council

Non governmental organisation G100, today condemned the Bar Council for its failure to clear the misconception in law and defend the judiciary against unfair, wrongful and or malicious statements which brings the judiciary into disrepute.

G100 spokesperson Lukman Sheriff Alias said as such, they are giving the Bar Council by the end of today to respond failing which the current office bearers must be held to account for bringing the Bar Council and by extension the Malaysian Bar into disrepute.

"Their motto of pro rule of law and pro justice would only be seen as mere shameless propagandas.

"We trust the Bar Council would do the needful," he said in a statement today.

Lukman said so when referring to a motion filed in Parliament on Wednesday by Pakatan Rakyat, to censure five Federal Court Judges who heard Sodomy II.

The NGO noted that the motion read: “The court decision was not ordinary, is not supported by law and is perverse in its logic.”

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G100 also mentioned the Bar Council’s initial reaction that said Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had been convicted of a victimless offence.

"G100 finds this statement highly contemptuous to the judiciary. One of the basis of the public opprobrium of the judiciary as stated in the statement is the reliance on the Bar Council's misleading position," it said.