Malaysian Bar president George Varughese expressed his disappointment over the apex court's failure to rule over the controversial appointments of former chief justice Md Raus Sharif and former Court of Appeal president Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin, and deeming its four questions of law "academic".

Varughese said the decision (not to rule) invariably would lead to uncertainty as to the current position of the law in the matter regarding the controversial appointments...