KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here ruled that the police had acted ultra vires (beyond powers) to impose a condition that absolutely prohibited the Malaysian Bar Council's assembly and march, dubbed the Walk for Judicial Independence in 2022.
The assembly and march were to protest the actions of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), which publicly announced an investigation into a Court of Appeal Judge (Datuk Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali), which was considered an interference with the judiciary's independence and a violation of the basic principle of separation of powers.
