He was mistaken for an interpreter, a hotel manager, an ugly judge, and a corpse. Then the scoreboard got it wrong too.
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How Do You Turn Two Hours of Rambling Argument Into Forty Minutes of Justice? The Judging Genius of Edgar Joseph Jr
A two-hour submission, one raised hand, and forty minutes: how a Federal Court judge quietly rewrote Malaysian law.
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Mortmain — the dead hand. England buried the last of it in 1960. Malaysia still carries a fragment, and nobody has explained why.
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The Best Statute Nobody Uses [Part 4/5]
Thirty ringgit turns five mortal trustees into a body corporate that never dies — and escapes the Companies Act entirely.
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Your Trust Is Invisible, and Your Trustee Is Mortal [Part 3/5]
The title names five men. It does not name the trust. And the five are mortal.
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The Oldest Trick in Equity [Part 2/5]
The company may not hold the land. So let it not hold the land. Four hundred years ago the law worked out how.
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Can Your Temple Own the Land It Stands On? [Part 1/5]
A man wants to give land to the temple he has worshipped at for forty years. One sentence stops him.
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Can Your Seller Mortgage the House You Have Already Paid For? [Part 4 – Land Scams]
A bank searched the title, gave a loan against what it saw, and lost the lot. There was no forger anywhere in this story.
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Who Pays When the Forger Has Vanished? [Part 3 – Land Scams]
Malaysia gives the true owner his land back. The duped buyer gets nothing — until the Land Registry was made to pay.
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Whose Mind Must a Judgment Actually Show? (Or Judicial Plagiarism)
A judge reproduced a lawyer’s submissions almost word for word. Two Commonwealth traditions have quietly answered why that matters.
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