This is the way that powerful men in this country spend their days: fielding requests for money (for funerals, for weddings) and adjudicating disputes.
Such drama is largely absent from Malaysia's sharia courts, which operate in parallel with civil ones and deal mostly with family law for the Muslim majority, annulling marriages and adjudicating custody disputes.
U.K. Secretary of Culture Jeremy Hunt, the politician in charge of adjudicating the acquisition up until Monday, addressed the British Parliament and said he would be referring the transaction to another regulator, the Competition Commission.