The Court of Appeal today allowed Perak speaker V Sivakumar to be represented by his own lawyers in two pending suits related to the Perak crisis.
The decision of the three-member bench led by Justice Md Raus Sharif was unanimous. The other two judges were Justice R Abdull Hamid Embong and Justice Ahmad Maarop.
Both suits are underway in the Ipoh High Court. The first involves three independent state representatives seeking to quash the speaker's ruling that their seats were vacant.
The second suit was brought by Menteri Besar Zambry Abd Kadir and his six exco members against the speaker for barring them from the state assembly.
Both cases are being heard by Judicial Commission Ridwan Ibrahim, who ruled twice on March 3 and March 5 that Sivakumar can only be represented by the state legal advisor as the speaker was a government officer.
Previously, Sivakumar's lawyers had argued in both cases that Sivakumar was not a civil servant and therefore not compelled to confine his counsel to the state legal advisor.
Furthermore, his lawyers have argued that the state legal advisor would be in conflict of interest if he represented both Sivakumar and Zambry, who is locked in another court battle against ousted Menteri Besar Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin in the Federal Court.
Certainly, it is illogicial to have the state legal advisor to represent Siva and Zambry - even a non-legal mind cannot comprehend such a ridiculous ruling.
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