Kuala Lampur, June 26 -- Former Malaysian Bar president Karen Cheah reportedly said the country would need to create an OPPA, instead of just stopping at amending the Federal Constitution to separate the roles of the attorney general (AG) and public prosecutor (PP).

"One of the things we proposed to the [parliamentary special select committee (PSSC)] is this Korean term of endearment called OPPA, which means Office of the Public Prosecutor Act, that is the legislation that we need. We need that legislation to go hand in hand with the Bill," she said at a Malaysian Bar forum on April 23.

According to Cheah, a law like OPPA would spell out the mechanism to remove a PP, how the tribunal to consider whether to remove a PP would be establish...