Can the Negeri Sembilan Throne Change Hands by Announcement? [7/NS]
No. A proclamation is the gate; the Constitution is the register. Only one of them moves the title.
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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?
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Your 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 ...
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Where To Now [Part 11/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
In 1988 a young lawyer in Kuala Terengganu put a sticker on his car. It read Tabik Hormat Untuk Lima Orang Hakim. Salute to the five judges... Thirty-seven years later, that lawyer became Chief Justice of Malaysia.
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A Slow Rebuilding [Part 10/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
Every year the judges and lawyers of Malaysia played the lawyers of Singapore at games... In 1988 it was cancelled. ... Men can play cricket together again while the thing they serve is still broken.
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Ashes and Silence [Part 9/11-The Malaysian Judiciary Then and Now]
The Bar went to court twice for the judges, and lost twice. The second time, it was the Bar that was punished.
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