Muhammad Haniff said Justice Mohd Nazlan also erred in law and facts when he held that vernacular schools were not public authority. theSun thesundaily Tamil Mandarin HighCourt vernacularschools
: The High Court judge erred when he ruled that the use of Mandarin and Tamil as the medium of instruction in vernacular schools was valid and constitutional, the Court of Appeal heard today.
“The national language is one of the primary and important ways to achieve unity among ethnic groups and the different school systems and the use of different languages as mediums of instruction have long divided the ethnic groups in Malaysia,” he submitted before the three-member bench comprising Justices Datuk Supang Lian, Datuk M.Gunalan and Datuk Azizul Azmi Adnan.
Muhammad Haniff was submitting in the appeals brought Mappim, Gapena, Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia and Ikatan Guru-Guru Muslim Malaysia . He ruled that the existence and establishment of vernacular schools and the use of Mandarin and Tamil languages in those schools are constitutional.
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