This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily on June 7, 2017 - June 13, 2017

KUALA LUMPUR: Information technology solutions provider, Microlink Solutions Bhd, has appointed former chief justice Tun Arifin Zakaria as its new chairman.

Arifin, 66, served as the chief justice from September 2011 up to his retirement in March this year.

He graduated with an LLB (Hons) degree from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in 1974 and obtained an LLM from the University of College, London in 1979. He was called to the English Bar at Lincolns Inn in 1979.

He began his legal career when he joined the Malaysian judicial and legal service before being posted as a federal counsel in the advisory division of the Attorney General’s Chambers and later as magistrate, sessions court judge and senior assistant registrar.

Arifin also served in various capacities in the government, both in the justice office and the legal department, before being appointed as a judicial commissioner in 1992 and judge of the High Court of Malaya in 1994.

In 2002, he was elevated to a judge of the Court of Appeal. In 2005 he became a judge of the Federal Court and in 2008, Chief Judge of Malaya.