The Occult in Legal Practice
In Dato’ Mahadev Shankar’s delightful collection of anecdotes appropriately titled, Legal Anecdotes, there is a story called the “The Occult”, which begins with this line: “In the life of a lawyer, one sometimes comes face to face with the occult.” This is true. If you haven’t had such an incident, I’m afraid you have not had the authentic experience of Malaysian legal experience. This was my encounter with the occult: I pupiled in my father’s …