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Why Should a Trustee Fear a Beddoe Order?
Before using trust money for a lawsuit, a careful trustee asks the court first.
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Does compulsory motor insurance protect every accident victim? [Part-1/2: Employee exception]
Compulsory motor insurance has a quiet exception — and injured employees often fall through it. Should we change the law?
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Can a Pupil in Chambers Argue a Case Before a Magistrate, Before Call?
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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Can an insurer sue a child for surviving a car crash? [Part-1]
A three-year-old survives a fatal crash. Four doctrines collide. Some lawyers might confuse them. Here is how not to.
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Do We Teach Young Lawyers a Spine and a Conscience — or Just Hand Out Certificates?
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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The Arm the Law Forgot: When a Crash Destroys a Prosthesis, Should Compulsory Motor Insurance Pay? [or, The RTA and Property Damage]
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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Can One Honest Mistake End a Lawyer’s Career—or Just Suspend It?
He touched his client money once; the law’s answer reveals what the profession fears most.
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When the Hand That Maimed Is the Hand That Nurses: On the Insurer’s Sudden Modesty
He crippled his wife, then nursed her for years — now his insurer calls that kindness a reason not to pay.
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When Is a Passenger a ‘Third Party’? [Sa’Amran 11/11]
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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Whom Does an Insurer’s sec. 96(3) Declaration Actually Bind? [Sa’Amran 9/11]
The insurer won a declaration against its own insured, then waved it at the crash victim like a writ of execution. Appeal No. 7 of Sa’Amran asked the question the order itself could not answer: whom does a section 96(3) declaration actually bind?
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