ANILNETTO
A week after Anwar’s acquittal put the judiciary in the spotlight,
Arifin, who took over as CJ in September 2012 (? 2011), called for the
independence of the judiciary and said that judges must be truly
independent from all interferences, including from their friends and
other judges. “Appellate court judges and Federal Court judges cannot
influence the decision of a magistrate. Nobody at all, even the Chief
Justice cannot talk to the magistrate,” he was reported as saying.