Responden-Responden merujuk kepada kes SAM MAARK VERAK v DATO’ ZAINAL ABIDIN AHMAD & ORS [2022] 3 CLJ 661 di mana Mahkamah telah merujuk kepada kes Mahkamah Persekutuan iaitu NG HOCK CHENG v PENGARAH AM S/N br/0QB/EkUWdcVS69inblw PENJARA & ORS [1998] 1 CLJ 405 yang menyatakan seperti berikut : “[66] The question of law posed to the Federal Court in Ng Hock Cheng contained two limbs. The first was whether the appellant's dismissal was valid while the second was whether a court had the power to interfere with any punishment meted out. It is the second limb of the question posed that is of specific relevance. On the second limb, Peh Swee Chin FCJ stated as follows, at p. 412 (CLJ); pp. 158 to 159 (MLJ): A public officer is entitled to impugn any allegation or accusation of any disciplinary breach against him by way of judicial review on the protection given by art. 135 of the Federal Constitution providing that no member of such service shall be dismissed or reduced in rank except (a) only by an authority that appointed him in the first place; and (b) after being given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.... If the public officer succeeds in so impugning, any order of punishment including an order of dismissal can be S/N br/0QB/EkUWdcVS69inblw declared invalid or void, and such order being so declared void, is deemed not to have been made at all or is deemed to have been only purportedly made previously. But if the public officer fails to so impugn, any order of punishment remains and there should be no further review on such order of punishment. To so further review judicially would be acting against the concept, in the case of an order of dismissal, that there should not generally be any employment against the will of employer or employee. After all is said and done, persons in the public service categorised under art. 132 of the Federal Constitution are in fact employees. (emphasis added) [67] Peh Swee Chin FCJ then went on the state, in p. (CLJ); p. 159 (MLJ), as follows: S/N br/0QB/EkUWdcVS69inblw To repeat, a court intervenes only on the nature and manner of accusation against a public officer as distinct from a consequential punishment as explained above. Just like a professional body being the best tribunal to judge the seriousness of misconduct of its members, in a similar vein, an employer, including a government is the best person to judge similarly the seriousness of misconduct of an employee. (emphasis added)”