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Court to hear legality of judges’ transfer Joseph Bingkasan  | October 21, 2013 A lawyer here will argue that the federal government's decison to by-pass the Chief Justice of Sabah and Sarawak and transfer five local judges is prejudicial and illegal. KOTA KINABALU: A High Court hearing here next month is expected to make clear how independent Sabah courts really are from federal interference. The hearing is in relation to the transfer of five local judges to Penang. The High Court here will hear the application by a lawyer to stop the transfer. The court fixed Nov 22 to hear the submission by Marcel Jude Joseph for a judicial review of the transfer orders by the federal government served on two sessions court judges and three magistrates. Counsel Joseph is arguing that the transfer of the five civil servants is prejudicial to Sabah and illegal. He named the Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, the director of Public Services Department, Chief Justice of Malaya, session court judges...

Assalamualaikum and Salam Sejahtera, 1. When I was reading Daily Express this morning, I was shocked to see these paper clips, as attached above. 2. Actually it is an open secret among legal fraternities in Kota Kinabalu that 4 of our judicial officers (actually its 5 altogether, but one of them has already transferred and cross over from the judiciary to legal service) being transferred to Semenanjung Malaysia. And interestingly, all of them are local Sabahans and one of them with a post of JUSA C! 3. Of course, being in the federal service, you are bound to be transferred all over Malaysia. This is the very first question being asked when we were interviewed and I remember this was posed to me by The Right Honourable Attorney General of Malaysia. Whenever we answered yes, cynically he would say "ehh, as usual." 4. I myself has been experiencing transfers. My first posting was to Sibu Sarawak, a place where I have never been before. I was warned by my colleagues that it was ...