00:00His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, has approved the appointments of three top judicial figures,
00:06including Court of Appeal Judge Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Saleh as the new Chief Justice of the Federal Court.
00:13The 62-year-old jurist from Kuala Terengganu takes over from Tun Tenku Maimun Tuan Mat, who retired on July 2.
00:22Before donning judicial robes, Wan Ahmad Farid wore a very different hat in Malaysian politics.
00:29He served as political secretary to former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and was a deputy home minister from 2008 to 2009.
00:39He even contested the Kuala Terengganu state by election in 2009, though unsuccessfully.
00:46A graduate of the University of West London with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1985,
00:52Wan Ahmad Farid made a dramatic career shift when he quit politics in 2013.
01:00Just two years later, he entered the judiciary as a judicial commissioner in December 2015.
01:07He was elevated to the High Court in 2019, serving in Kota Baru, Shah Alam and Kuala Lumpur,
01:14before being appointed to the Court of Appeal just last November.
01:17Wan Ahmad Farid will be sworn in as the nation's 17th Chief Justice on July 28.
01:25Wan Ahmad Farid had, Dadi, password on August 28.
01:44Wan Ahmad Arhestraga, hold on a huge shortage of Britain vapped between helmet and textbooks
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