President picks drug court judge for Supreme Court
The president has sought the judicial watchdog’s counsel.
05 Sep 2019, 9:00 AM
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Thursday sought the advice of the judicial watchdog to nominate Drug Court Judge Mahaz Ali Zahir to the Supreme Court.
A vacancy opened on the bench after parliament dismissed former justice Abdulla Didi last week.
Mahaz was among the first judges to be appointed to the newly-formed drug court in February 2012. Born on the island of Madaveli in Gaafu Dhaalu atoll, he previously worked at the Attorney General’s office as an assistant state attorney and at the Prosecutor General’s office as an assistant public prosecutor.
Mahaz has also published four books and written numerous articles for the Maldives Law Review. In October 2015, the judicial watchdog reprimanded him over a blogpost that was deemed to have been critical of a Supreme Court ruling. But the judge vowed to continue writing academic articles on contentious legal issues.
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