KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 -- The Attorney General has maintained that the Malaysian Bar has failed to establish any breach of the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) Act in relation to the appointment of Federal Court Judge Tan Sri Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh as a member of the commission.

Senior Federal Counsel Shamsul Bolhassan, representing the Attorney General, submitted that the first respondent, Ahmad Terrirudin, met the requirements to be appointed to the JAC, and that this fact was not disputed, according to a report published in Berita Harian today.

He said Section 5(1)(e) of the JAC Act sets out only two conditions for JAC membership - that the individual must be a Federal Court judge, and that the appointment must be made by t...