The Court of Appeal, notorious for twisting the law, or where that is too difficult, simply ignoring it has now excelled itself by “clearing” arch thief Najib Razak.

The judges concluded that since the Attorney General, and others, whose function it is not, had “cleared” Najib the Pua case to stay an injunction could not proceed.

They even went so far as to cite the various “authorities” on whose “clearance” they relied. Among these was the Attorney General who publicly cleared Najib while holding up in public written proof of Najib’s guilt. One assumes that judges do not get so far as the Appeal Court Bench without some notion of the reliability of witnesses.

Others mentioned included the PDRM to whom the Appeal Court seemed to be according a co-equal power of assessment. In fact the PDRM have not, since being sold out by former IGP Khalid, investigated the 1MDB affair. As to the MACC, also quoted, one has to wonder what impact infidelity has on reliability of judgment.

In short this session of the Appeal Court has disclosed that the judiciary, theoretically independent of the executive is in fact a handmaiden of the arch criminal Najib. It’s members do not deserve the title of judge and ought to be disbarred. Which they likely will be after GE14.