Malaysian legal history Malaysian legal history Malaysian legal history has been determined by events spanning a period of some six hundred years. Of these, three major periods were largely responsible for shaping the current Malaysian system. The first was the founding of the Melaka Sultanate at the beginning of the 15th century; second was the spread of Islam in the indigenous culture; and finally, and perhaps the most significant in modern Malaysia, was British colonial rule which brought with it constitutional government and the common law system. During the realm of the Sultanate, Melaka was an important trading port and the maintenance of
Malaysian Maverick Malaysian Maverick Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times is a biography of Mahathir Mohamad written by the Australian journalist Barry Wain (1944–2013). When the first batch of the book arrived at Port Klang in December 2009, it was detained by the Home Ministry of Malaysia. The ministry finally approved the book for sale in April 2010. The "Malaysian Maverick" became one of the best-selling books in Malaysia. Wain claims that 12,500 copies of the book have been sold in Asia and Australia. "Time" magazine quoted an economist at Morgan Stanley in Singapore as saying that the country might have