Drawing upon Lord Denning’s advocacy of common sense in judicial decisions – alongside my own worldly and judicial experience in Malaysia, rooted in my origins in Thopputhurai, Vedaranyam, Tamil Nadu, India – I will state bluntly: no person operating in isolation possesses the capacity to defraud a nation on a scale that attracts universal infamy without the active assistance of a wider network.
When I sat as a judge, I treated common sense as my primary guiding principle when interpreting the Federal Constitution, the law and the facts of any case. It was strictly through this practical approach that I developed the oath of office jurisprudence as well as the concept of university-cum-court annexed arbitration.
