Puad accuses Malaysian Bar of practising double standards


PETALING JAYA: Datuk Dr Puad Zarkashi has accused the Malaysian bar of not being impartial after it revealed plans to seek a judicial review of the Pardons Board’s decision to commute the sentence of Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

The Umno supreme council member said that there was "unsurprising" that the Bar passed the motion to file a judicial review in its annual general meeting on Saturday (March 16).

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