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We, The Betrayed Generation

We, The Betrayed Generation

Tan Shang Neng rants against the powers that be, in despair for the youth of a country devoid of Hope. He cries out for a beacon to guide this country back to its true path.

Ladies and gentlemen, and the award goes to…..

The absurdity of it all. And not to mention the audacity of it all. And as if to further add sodium chloride to the wide gaping wounds that all of us, Malaysians, suffer every time our so called leaders forget to take their medications, we are told that so and so have been sacked or told to leave their job, some even earning pensions and whatever.

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Royal Commission = Royal Circus of Malaysia

Fahri Azzat comments on the call for a Royal Commission to investigate into Teoh Beng Hock’s death.

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Lawyers whisper when they say the word “human rights”

(This is the English translation of the Danish article in relation to the 2008 Bar Council’s International Human Rights Day celebrations which appeared here.) The absence of functional jurisdiction allows the law to be used for oppression in a number of Asian countries. Malaysia has a strong Bar Association and recently put focus on the […]

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A Question of Etiquette

I notice nowadays that Counsel just love the phrase mala fide. Never mind them not really understanding the phrase. Another phrase which many Counsel love nowadays is “misleading the Court”. Sometimes we impress a point of law to the Judge and tell the Judge what a case may mean. The opposite Counsel then has a different view. That would be alright. All he needs to say then is that “I beg to differ from my learned friend on his reading of the case”. But no. Nowadays many Counsel would say, “He is misleading the Court!”. Good God! What is happening to our profession?

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