One judgment was ninety-four per cent copy-paste. How the keyboard killed judicial thought — and how to revive it.
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There is a disease at the Bar. The sufferer opens his mouth. He cannot stop.
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Before using trust money for a lawsuit, a careful trustee asks the court first.
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Compulsory motor insurance has a quiet exception — and injured employees often fall through it. Should we change the law?
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In recent years I have appeared in several trial courts: Kuala Lumpur, Shah Alam, Kota Bharu, Kuala Terengganu, and Johore Bharu. My work requires me to appear regularly before the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court. I am happy to report that Malaysian judges are courteous, professional–and to use an old English word, "proper". It was not always this way: several times in my career, I have come across ...
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During pupillage, she may rise and argue before a magistrate. The moment pupillage ends, her voice falls silent — until Call. This is where the two lines fall, and why.
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Are we asking the right questions about legal training? Malaysia wants to retire the CLP — but the exam, and the training, were never the real danger. It is what we fail to teach.
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Who says that a third party victim of an accident, "cannot claim for property damage"? Would the Constitution treat personal injury as different from damage to a victim's property just because a statute ignores constitutional rights?
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He touched his client money once; the law’s answer reveals what the profession fears most.
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The victim was the insured’s husband, riding to a work audit in his wife’s car. The insurer said the policy did not cover him, sat out the trial’s coverage fight, lost it, and then demanded the victim sue all over again. The Federal Court declined to oblige.
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