A Lawyer Delays His Disciplinary Hearing. Must the Disciplinary Committee Sit and Wait?
What happens when a lawyer accused of professional misconduct keeps finding excuses not to show up to answer for it?
Read MoreWhat happens when a lawyer accused of professional misconduct keeps finding excuses not to show up to answer for it?
Read MoreYour solicitor raided your money for his own emergency, then quietly put it back. The courts said the wrong was done the moment he took it. Suppose A donates a kidney meant for B, the patient waiting on the transplant list. The surgeon instead implants it in his girlfriend. How would you feel about it — especially if you were B?
Read MoreBacon said judges are lions under the throne. George Seah read the sentence and crossed out three words.
Read MoreHe was mistaken for an interpreter, a hotel manager, an ugly judge, and a corpse. Then the scoreboard got it wrong too.
Read MoreHe lost the case three to two in 1988. The Federal Court handed it to him in 2024, long after he was gone.
Read MoreHe declared Malaysia's law secular, then spent the rest of his life obeying his own judgment — in pencil. Why the pencil, do you think?
Read MoreBacon said judges are lions under the throne. Mahadev Shankar made them tigers, and meant it.
Read MoreHe told a convicted Menteri Besar he had betrayed his Sovereign Ruler. Eight years later, he became one.
Read MoreA two-hour submission, one raised hand, and forty minutes: how a Federal Court judge quietly rewrote Malaysian law.
Read MoreMortmain — 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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