Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Congratulations to Datuk Seri Ram Gopal for the promotion! Its kind of long overdue.
After 15 years in the Court of Appeal, Datuk Gopal Sri Ram will be elevated to the Federal Court together with two judges.
Sri Ram, Datuk Wira Ghazali Mohd Yusof and Datuk James Foong will receive their appointment letters from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong at Istana Negara tomorrow morning.
In the afternoon, the three will take their oath of office before Chief Justice Tan Sri Zaki Azmi.
Sri Ram, 65, has the distinction of being the first lawyer in private practice to be appointed straight to the Court of Appeal when it was set up in 1994. He never served as a judicial commissioner nor a High Court judge.
Occasionally, he has been invited to the Federal Court bench in the interest of justice and has written about 800 judgments.
Some of his landmark rulings are in the areas of public, contract and industrial law.
He is also known for giving on-the-spot oral judgments after hearing submissions from lawyers.
Highly-respected in the Commonwealth for his legal knowledge, Sri Ram has also presented papers locally and abroad.
He will turn 66 on Aug 16, the retirement age for judges, but the Federal Constitution allows for a six-month extension.
