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Providing Cross-Examination Questions in Advance

Providing Cross-Examination Questions in Advance

The inimitable Fahri Azzat returns to the most awesome blawg with an evisceration of the practice of asking counsel to supply Cross Examination questions in advance There will come a time in your legal practice when you are directed to do something so senseless, so illogical and so silly but you have no choice because […]

Absolutely Unreasonable

Absolutely Unreasonable

Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done

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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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A Student’s Perspective: Legal Education And Professional Ethics

A Student’s Perspective: Legal Education And Professional Ethics

Reflections of a final semester law student on the state of our legal education and the role it plays in shaping how law is practised in Malaysia.

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LoyarBurok Interview: NH Chan (Part 5)

LoyarBurok Interview: NH Chan (Part 5)

Loyarburok is pleased to present its exclusive interview in five parts with the incorrigible, irrepressible and inimitable Chan Nyarn Hoi or NH Chan as he known, Malaysia’s most famous retired Court of Appeal judge. This is the final instalment.

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LoyarBurok Interview: NH Chan (Part 4)

LoyarBurok Interview: NH Chan (Part 4)

Loyarburok is pleased to present its exclusive interview in five parts with the irrepressible and inimitable NH Chan. In this penultimate instalment, we speak to Malaysia’s most famous retired Court of Appeal judge about what affected him to go on his one-man crusade and his experience with VK Lingam.

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LoyarBurok Interview: NH Chan (Part 3)

LoyarBurok Interview: NH Chan (Part 3)

Loyarburok is pleased to present its exclusive interview in five parts with the irrepressible and inimitable NH Chan. In Part 3, LoyarBurok asks Malaysia’s most famous retired Court of Appeal judge about his personal experience with corrupt judges and if he has sat on panels where the other judges were ‘fixed’.

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LoyarBurok Interview: NH Chan (Part 2)

LoyarBurok Interview: NH Chan (Part 2)

Loyarburok is pleased to present its exclusive interview in five parts with the incorrigible, irrepressible and inimitable Chan Nyarn Hoi or NH Chan as he known, Malaysia’s most famous retired Court of Appeal judge. Part 2.

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Cleaning up the Judiciary – was the Chief Justice right?

When I first read the news report in the Star that YAA Tan Sri Zaki, the Chief Justice, had told 2 errant High Court Judges to voluntarily resign, my initial reaction was one of pleasure. I thought it was good that the CJ has finally cracked the whip and told these useless Judges to leave […]

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Malaysian Judiciary website – looking good

The new webportal for the Malaysian Judiciary is a vast improvement on its predecessor. Equipped with the latest Judgments from the higher appellate courts, and links to State Court websites (some of which are still in development), the new website offers a fresh new look to the content that was already there before. But there’s […]

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Security Machines at Istana Kehakiman

Security Machines at Istana Kehakiman

Fahri Azzat, who occasionally visits the Istana Kehakiman to do a bit of filing, breakfast and use the impressive toilets, shares his thoughts on the security machines and guards stationed at the entrances calling for the removal of both.

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Appointing and Promoting Judges on Merit

In the New Sunday Times on 21 December 2008, it was reported that our Chief Justice was thinking of determining the seniority of judges based on merit instead of time served on the bench. “Merit” would also be a relevant factor for the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) to consider in the appointment and promotion of […]

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How We Remunerate Our Judges

A consideration of The Judge’s Remuneration Act 1971 (Act 45).

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