Court of Appeal (Malaysia)

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The Malaysian Court of Appeal is an appellate court in the country's judiciary system. It is the second highest court in the hierarchy below the Federal Court of Malaysia. This court was created in 1994 as part of reforms made to the judiciary to create a second tier appellate court after the Privy Council appeals to the United Kingdom was abolished in 1985. The court is headed by the President of the Court of Appeal, who is the second most important person in Malaysian judiciary after the Chief Justice of the Federal Court. As of January 2008, the President is Zaki bin Tun Azmi. He assumed office on December 11, 2007, three months after being appointed as a Federal Court judge. He is the first person in Malaysia to be appointed as Federal Court judge bypassing all inferior courts.^[1] He was previously a lawyer.