KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 — There should be a "minimum number" of Sabah and Sarawak judges at the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court to ensure the sufficient representation of such judges at the appellate courts, the Sabah Law Society (SLS) said today.In pushing for this "affirmative action" policy, SLS president Roger Chin suggested that judges to fill up these positions should be chosen from "separate pools" of candidates "consisting of only judges from Sabah and Sarawak each"."If Sabah and Sarawak judges were to be lumped together with Peninsular Malaysia judges and one of the criteria for promotion is seniority, one can see how the sheer number of the latter would mean that there would nearly always be more senior judges from there to be elevated, leaving the number of Sabah and Sarawak judges at the Appellate Courts at a minimum," he said when urging for separate candidate pools.

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