And the legal fraternity, the judges and courts remain mute in this assault on the constitutional protections afforded to the public service, ministers, parliamentarians and their delegates in service of government.
One would have thought the "brilliant" (of his own self assessment) Tommy Thomas and his supporters (Ambiga Srinivasan and the Malaysian Bar) would have come out swinging, fighting the embarassment of such an assault against the crown and constitution. After all they are (even if self proclaimed) constitutional experts are they not?
The indemnities and immunities granted to parliamentarians not just ministers of the crown and their delegates in the exercise of their lawful duties is implied in every Westminster type constitution including Malaysia's.
The indemnities and immunities is the basis and the shield behind which governments and their individual constituent components assembled in government make decisions without fear or favour. If these protections did not exist, ministers and civil servants will not an out of fear carry out their tasks.
The explanations are too lengthy to canvass and discuss in these pages, but a little research will tell us why the PM alone is unable to weild such powers against anyone in government unless there is prima facie they acted on a frolic of their own or criminally by departing from their authority. Very doubtful that the latter or the former is the case.
And the legal fraternity, the judges and courts remain mute in this assault on the constitutional protections afforded to the public service, ministers, parliamentarians and their delegates in service of government.
One would have thought the "brilliant" (of his own self assessment) Tommy Thomas and his supporters (Ambiga Srinivasan and the Malaysian Bar) would have come out swinging, fighting the embarassment of such an assault against the crown and constitution. After all they are (even if self proclaimed) constitutional experts are they not?
The indemnities and immunities granted to parliamentarians not just ministers of the crown and their delegates in the exercise of their lawful duties is implied in every Westminster type constitution including Malaysia's.
The indemnities and immunities is the basis and the shield behind which governments and their individual constituent components assembled in government make decisions without fear or favour. If these protections did not exist, ministers and civil servants will not an out of fear carry out their tasks.
The explanations are too lengthy to canvass and discuss in these pages, but a little research will tell us why the PM alone is unable to weild such powers against anyone in government unless there is prima facie they acted on a frolic of their own or criminally by departing from their authority. Very doubtful that the latter or the former is the case.