Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat says judicial commissioners must perform their duties with independence, impartiality and efficiency.
New Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat with the judicial commissioners who took their oath of office today.
Tengku Maimun told reporters she reminded them that justice must not only be seen to be done but it must be done. Asked whether she was surprised by her appointment as the first female judge to lead the judiciary, she said: “All praise to the Almighty. Allahamdullilah.”She is the youngest to assume the top post, after Suffian Mohamed Hashim, who became chief justice at the are in 57 in 1974. Suffian was CJ until 1982).Tengku Maimun, who was appointed a judicial commissioner at the Kuala Lumpur High Court in 2006, was confirmed as a High Court judge in 2007 and a Court of Appeal judge in 2013.
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