Comment on Karpal thrilled us with his delivery in court, former judge recalls by boh-liao

by Anisah Shukry The Malaysian Insider May 02, 2014

Judges at the Court of Appeal used to eagerly anticipate Karpal Singhs presence before them, and news of his appearance would immediately give them a lift, a former appellate court judge recalled this evening.

Speaking at a memorial service for Karpal in Petaling Jaya, Datuk Mahadev Shankar remembered how the fiery lawyer was popular with the judges, all of whom held him in high esteem.

After I became a judge, I had the opportunity to watch Karpal in action, and I found that he was the best lawyer who ever appeared before me.

I would rank him the best lawyer in the country, Mahadev told some 100 people at the memorial organised by Karpals former schoolmates from SMK La Salle and St. Xaviers Institution.

Other speakers at the memorial were Karpals son and Puchong MP Gobind Singh Deo, DAP advisor and Gelang Patah MP Lim Kit Siang and former deputy minister of Land and Cooperative Development and former Penang deputy chief minister Dr Goh Cheng Teik.

He never wasted the courts time. When he came into court, he went straight for the jugular, without mincing his words.

More often than not, I agreed with him. Other times, I did not, and I judged against him.

But this was the opinion of all the judges that time: we put him as number one. When we heard he was coming to court that day, we immediately got a lift, said the former judge.

Mahadev described every moment of Karpal in court as memorable, stressing that it was impossible to choose one example to illustrate the late veteran lawyers prowess.

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