Judicial review of the executive discretionary powers: judicial activism Vis-A-Vis judicial selfrestraint of maintaining a dividing line between supervisory and appellate jurisdiction / Noor ‘Ashikin Hamid and Rusniah Ahmad

• Main Authors: Hamid, Noor ‘Ashikin, Ahmad, Rusniah
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Jurisprudence. Philosophy and theory of law
• Online Access: http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33445/1/33445.pdf; http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/33445/

Malaysian court unhesitant approach in departing from the traditional English common law concept of judicial review manifested itself in the locus classicus of R Rama Chandran v The Industrial Court of Malaysia & Anor [1997] 1 CLJ 147. This landmark decision of the Federal Court transformed the...