Catholic Archbishop Murphy Pakiam lost his bid to strike out the Home Ministry and government's appeal over the Allah issue. The Court of Appeal’s three-member panel (Justice Abu Samah Nordin, Justice Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahim and Justice Rohana Yusof) unanimously dismissed the archbishop's notice of motion to strike out the appeal. They ruled that the matter was not academic and was still “a live issue”. The court also questioned Pakiam for bringing the motion before the appeal proper.
Justice Abu Samah described the latter’s action as drastic because the appeal had been properly filed before the court and the appellants should not be denied the right to appeal.
For now, the appeal of the Home Ministry and the government on the use of the term Allah by the Herald Catholic Weekly will be heard on September 10, 2013.
I was at the AFC Toastmasters meeting on Wednesday evening and attendance was pretty poor for a club with fifty plus members. The other area of concern was time management but it was very heartening to observe that Sergeant-at-Arms Sharon Tan was instrumental in single-handedly pushing to get the meeting to start on time. Still, it ended seventeen minutes behind schedule. I was the General Evaluator and aside from the above-mentioned issues, the meeting went well. In fact, the speeches and evaluations were very good! I would give this meeting a 5 over 10.
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