Kuala Lampur, Oct. 28 -- In the case before the Court of Appeal, reported as In the Matter of an Oral Application by Dato' Seri Anwar Bin Ibrahim to Disqualify a Judge of the Court of Appeal [2000] 2 MLJ 481, during the course of the hearing of his appeal, the appellant requested for permission to address the court himself.

The appellant claimed that in his capacity as the deputy prime minister, he had represented the prime minister to the Conference of Rulers in which the appointment of High Court Judge Mokhtar Sidin (as he then was) to the bench of the Court of Appeal was in question, as the Conference of Rulers were not in agreement with the prime minister's advice with regard to the appointment

In light of that, the appellant made a...