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A lady’s right to choose

A lady’s right to choose

I’ve often felt, if one is born a woman, one is somehow short-changed.

Advocating the return of honour to the legal profession (Part 3)

The absence of honour in our legal profession is reflected in our own legal practise. These days a ‘letter of confirmation’ is issued for the most petty of matters such as mentioning on behalf of another (see my article ‘Of Mentions and Mentioning on Behalf‘ for a fuller explanation of this notion), the informing of […]

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Advocating the return of honour to the legal profession (Part 2)

Furthermore, a powerful intelligence is dangerous when coupled with dishonesty just as diligence is wasted without a sense of justice. A person with only the external dimension or only an incomplete proper internal dimension is at best a poser and at worse, a fraud. The focus and emphasis in recent times on the external dimension […]

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Advocating the return of honour to the legal profession (Part 1)

Advocating the return of honour to the legal profession (Part 1)

In this article, Fahri Azzat meditates on the practise of law and the role of honour in the practise of law its economics and ethical and moral repercussions. As the article is long, we have endeavoured to break it up into three parts, which will be published daily until conclusion. The comments for the first two parts will be switched off though comments will be allowed on the third and final instalment so that interested readers can respond after having read the piece in its entirety. The full uninterrupted text will be republished on the weekend. The subtitle of the article is, ‘Contemplating the Moral and Ethical Dimensions of a Lawyer’.

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Perak Political Plague & the 6th Bushido Code

Perak Political Plague & the 6th Bushido Code

I joked candidly that M. Kula, the Ipoh Barat Member of Parliament must have been an Orang Asli in his past life because of his concern and support for my work with the indigenous people of this country. He revved his 4WD on a precariously winding road in the secondary forest that was once ravished […]

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