KUALA LUMPUR, June 16, 2011: Mr. M Ravi, Counsel for Yong Vui Kong (Singapore), YB Datuk Chua Soon Bui ( MP Tawau) Miss Ngeow Chow Ying' (Lawyer for Save Vui Kong campaign), Miss Sharmila Sekaran (Voice of the Children) handed over the memorandum to the Pegawai tugas-tugas Khas of the Minister of foreign affair, Mr. Ahmad Nordin.
YB Datuk Sri Anifah Hj Aman , Minister of Foreign Affair was not in the parliament during the visit of Mr. M Ravi who had earlier gave a press conference at the Parliament regarding the appeal to the Foreign Ministry to bring the matter to the the ICJ.
After the clemency appeal from the people of Malaysia, including people of Sabah, also the NGO and individuals from Singapore, Mr. M Ravi, the Singapore counsel for Vui Kong Made an application on 4th April 2011 for the Chief Justice, Mr. Chan Sek Keong, to disqualify himself from hearing the appeal, premised on the grounds that:-
a) requests the court to decide on whether the President of Singapore must act on the advise of the cabinet on the matters relating to the President's prerogative power on clemency ;
b) the Chief Justice who was the AG from 1992-2006, was in the position to advise and ought to have advised the President or the cabinet relating to the President's prerogative power on clemency during such period ;
c) thus there is a conflict of interest when the Chief Justice is to now decide on the matter which he had or ought to have advised the President and or cabinet about the clemency powers of the President.
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