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CHIEF Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat has said it is not an issue that her tenure was not extended: “Six months is not significant compared with the six years,” she said, referring to her full tenure of six years as CJ and the lack of the six-month extension that usually follows (“Tengku Maimun says goodbye, with no regrets”, The Star, July 2; online at bit.ly/star_maimun).

She who had spoken of proposals to amend the Judicial Appoint-ments Commission Act 2009 and the Federal Constitution to remove the role of the prime minister in the appointment of judges, had not however spoken of increasing the retirement age of judges. That’s unlike a previous CJ, Tun Arifin Zakaria, who said that the retirement age of judges should be increased to 70 years old.