HAKIMLERE GÜVENMIYORSANIZ AKADEMISYENLER KARAR VERSIN: MALEZYA İSLAM HUKUKU DANIŞMA KONSEYININ İSLAM FINANSINDAKI ÜSTÜNLÜĞÜ

IF YOU DON’T TRUST JUDGES, LET THE SCHOLARS DECIDE: THE PRIMACY OF THE MALAYSIAN SHARIAH ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ISLAMIC FINANCE

Malaysia adopts the principle of separation of powers where the function of the legislature is to enact laws,the executive to govern in accordance with the law and the court to decide disputes and to apply the law. It isan aberration when the law provides that a court of law has to revert to a body of scholars in determining whatthe law in deciding disputes between parties is. However, this occurs in Malaysia in the area of Islamic financewhere the law establishes a Shariah Advisory Council consisting of scholar of Islamic finance under the auspicesof the Malaysian Central Bank. The decision of the Shariah Advisory Council is final and binding upon anyarbitration bodies and courts. This paper adopts a doctrinal analysis approach in examining this issue fromthe perspective of the constitution and the legal system, and seeks to reconcile this aberration with the realityof the practice of law and the practice of Islamic finance in Malaysia. The paper then examines alternative tothis mechanism.

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