Where are the grounds of judgment?

It has been reported by Malaysian Insider today that lawyers for several cases involving the Perak political crisis are still in the dark over the grounds of judgment and are urging the judges to write them down for the sake of public interest.

The lawyers for Datuk Seri Nizar had written to the Federal Court requesting the grounds of judgment for the March 23 decision of the Federal Court to send their lawsuit against Datuk Seri Zambry back to the Kuala Lumpur High Court.

Their request for grounds of judgment was rejected with the reason being that the Federal Court had allowed the preliminary objection.

It was understood that lawyers for Perak Speaker V. Sivakumar had also written to the Federal Court requesting the grounds of judgment pertaining to the declaration that it has the jurisdiction under the Perak constitution to hear the case concerning the three frogs who had defected to Barisan Nasional as well as the case where the speaker had suspended Zambry and his six state executive councillors.

As the cases are of public interest, it is important that the public are able to examine for themselves the grounds of judgment in order to understand how the judgment came about in the current political crisis in Perak.

Are the Courts willing to be transparent on this issue?