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Members’ Complaints Regarding Current Court Proceedings

Members’ Complaints Regarding Current Court Proceedings

An email from Azman, following the Bar Council’s press conference on 4 March 2011.

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Ask Lord Bobo: Of Lawyers And Law-breakers

Ask Lord Bobo: Of Lawyers And Law-breakers

From the Selangor Times Issue 13, 25-27 February 2011. Ask Lord Bobo ponders what litigation lawyers think about getting paid 400% more this year, and whether laws are meant to be broken.

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Heavier Sentences Not Solution To Reduce Crime

Heavier Sentences Not Solution To Reduce Crime

What is the purpose of a heavy sentence when it is an almost forgone conclusion that an offender who completes his sentence is very likely to return to a life of crime because of their rejection from society?

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Speedy Gone Justice!

Speedy Gone Justice!

A hard critical look at the Chief Justice’s apparent initiatives to revamp legal practice, and some questions for his Lordship to think about.

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Justice on a Coin Flip?

Justice on a Coin Flip?

The burden faced by lawyers is matched by none other than the glee on the face of the exalted ones when they announce how many cases have been summarily disposed. Of course it is carefully engineered to look as if justice was served. Cold, raw dish indeed.

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Harrumph. Tell us something new, Ed.

Harrumph. Tell us something new, Ed.

LoyarBurokker Shanmuga K. critiques Edmund’s “Biting Interview” as critiquing what lawyers and the rakyat already know. Old news, really.

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Ducking at the Court of Appeal?

Ducking at the Court of Appeal?

Amer Hamzah Arshad (with Fahri Azzat in support) continues LoyarBurok’s well-taken trademark tirade against the practice of Malaysian judges who duck writing judgments on important constitutional law issues.

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Step on it if you dare!

Ahmad and Ah Boy would be standing face to face, about 2 feet apart. No one moved. Ahmad was waiting for Ah Boy to make the first move and vice versa. The crowd, which of course would include me, would wait and wait. When are you two brave guys gonna go at each other la dey…I want to go home and have my lunch la.

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My People First, Performance for My People Now?

A few days after America’s Capitol Hill celebrated the historic passing of their Health Care Bill, we hear some shocking and illogical statements in our Capital Hill, the Parliament. The American People’s Representatives have been working hard to work out a deal for the American people, but in the Malaysian Parliament on November 9, 2009, [...]

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