Hasan Ali and Me | Part One
Prelude Many years ago when I was a young lawyer taking up criminal cases from the Bar Council Legal Aid Centre (Kuala Lumpur) (“LACKL”), I came across a case that affected me deeply. It is likely to have occurred around my fifth year of practice. It involved a 12 year old Malay boy. I forgot his name but not his circumstance. He was arrested for theft at a café of an expensive mobile phone owned …