In a Kuala Lumpur courtroom, eight defendants in a sprawling corporate fraud case attempted to remove the presiding judge mid-trial, claiming he had already decided their fate behind closed doors. Justice Leong Wai Hong, after examining the evidence carefully, found their allegations contradicted by their own private communications and dismissed every application. The ruling is less about one judge's impartiality than about a deeper question courts everywhere must answer: at what point does the invocation of fairness become a weapon against it?