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The government will review the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) Act 2009 amid public confusion over the recent Chief Justice appointment process.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said said a special committee will be established, comprising members of the Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara, as well as constitutional experts, legal practitioners and academics.

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00:00What are the reforms that are going to be made to the traditional independence?
00:07We are forming it, the committee with the upper house and lower house chair in reference to constitution and institutional reform.
00:16We bring in some university professors. We have to look because if you look at some countries like UK, Canada, Australia, India,
00:23some have JAK, some don't have JAK. Even Singapore doesn't have JAK.
00:27And then we have to look at it, even the structure of the JAK itself.
00:30We have to improve because what's happening now is that there's a lot of confusion, no clarity from the public perspective.
00:36But then this particular JAK Act, which has been passed and established since 2009, is responsible for five chief justices.
00:45From 2009, there's never been an issue. Suddenly now there's an issue.
00:49So we have to really study where did the non clarity or confusion come in?
00:55Is it the processes or is it the wording? Because it's the judicial appointment commission.
01:00Maybe the word appointment, I don't know. We have to study.
01:03If you have two parts of the JAK.
01:12Okay.
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