SHAIK DAUD JCA I have had the privilege of reading in drafts both the judgments of my brothers, VC George and Gopal Sri Ram JJCA. In my view, there is a lacuna in the law on the refusal of a judge to exercise his revisionary powers but I feel the court is not the place to fill in this lacuna.

I therefore concur with the judgment of my brother, Gopal Sri Ram JCA.

Gopal Sri Ram JCA (delivering the majority judgment of the court): 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.

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

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