Gopal Sri Ram JCA:

[1] This Court was moved on 6 February 1995, by the applicants for leave to refer certain questions to this Court under s 66(1) of the Courts of Judicature Act, 1964, which I will refer to as the Act throughout this judgment. Having heard argument, we reserved judgment. I now hand down the conclusions I have arrived at and the reasons for them.

[2] Although there is a reference in the motion to s 66(5)(b) of the Act, the first prayer asks for an order in the following terms:

a) Pemohon-pemohon diberi kebenaran untuk merayu kepada Mahkamah Rayuan Malaysia terhadap keputusan Yang Arif Dato' Syed Ahmad Idid bin Syed Abdullah Idid yang diberi pada 20 Oktober 1994 yang memutuskan bahawa berdasarkan kepada peruntukan dibawah s 323 Kanun Acara Jenayah, Yang Arif Hakim tidak perlu menggunakan kuasa penyemakan Yang Arif untuk menyemak kes ini.

[3] Now that seemed quite odd because what was being sought was leave to appeal and not leave to reserve questions But Encik Su in the course of his address to us conceeded that the motion was unhappily worded and that what he really wanted was, leave to reserve the questions set out in para 9 of the supporting affidavit.

[4] For