Johor bicycle tragedy: Ex-Bar chief wants reform for automatic appeal

Clerk Sam Ke Ting currently does not have an automatic right to appeal but instead needed to apply for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal.

As a result, former Bar Council chairperson Salim Bashir today has called for the government to reform the law to allow such automatic appeal right in fatal reckless driving cases.

His call came on the heels of the Johor Bahru High...