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Former Chief Justice Tun Zaki Azmi has urged the government to recruit additional judges and implement comprehensive training programmes as essential measures to alleviate Malaysia's growing court backlog and enhance judicial competency.
A Sessions Court has acquitted the widow of a former politician in a RM2.8 million graft case, concluding the defence successfully demonstrated reasonable doubt in the prosecution's charges following a protracted seven-year legal ordeal.
Malaysia's Court of Appeal has granted former Prime Minister Najib Razak permission to attend a hearing into the Bar Council's legal challenge against a royal pardons board decision affecting his case.