Nazri: Bar Council supposed to be a role model

(Bernama) KUALA KANGSAR: The Bar Coun-cil’s decision to sue the Government over the May 7 detention of five legal aid lawyers is an attempt to intimidate enforcement authorities from discharging their duties, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said yesterday.

He said it also showed that the legal practitioners themselves wanted to undermine the country’s legal system.

“The Bar Council is supposed to be a role model. If police enforce the law and among those caught are their (Bar Council) members, they have to accept it.

“We have the judiciary. Let the court decide whether the five lawyers are guilty or not,” he told reporters after opening a programme for UPSR pupils in the Padang Rengas parliamentary constituency at SMK Temenggong, Kati, here.

He was commenting on a resolution passed by the Bar Council at its extraordinary general meeting on Friday to sue the Government and Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan over the detention of the five lawyers during a candlelight vigil for the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) activist Wong Chin Huat last week.