Malaysia does not have the law on its side in $15bn Sulu dispute
Paul Cohen is a barrister in London.
Last month, Azalina Othman Said, Malaysia's minister of law and institutional reform, wrote in Nikkei Asia that a $14.9 billion arbitration award that her government has been ordered to pay represents "a sophisticated form of abuse of the international arbitration system aimed at holding a sovereign country to ransom."