My colleague said this to me the other day after we completed an online case management. Over the last few case managements he attended alone, he could not prevent applications that were filed after ours from being heard first despite our application being filed earlier and dealing with a threshold issue of the case. His exasperated remark was true. What I said and asked for was in substance exactly what he had said and asked …
May it please your Lordship, The Petitioner is the daughter of Mr Simon Hoo, a remisier, and Madam Ruth Ng, a Home Minister. She has an elder sister, Anne Hoo, who is a pharmacist in the United Kingdom and a younger brother, John Hoo. The Petitioner was an accomplished student. She got the kind of grades I would read about in a University newsletter. In the first and second years of her Bachelor of Laws …
While hanging about the Jalan Raja criminal magistrates in the afternoon in my second year of practice, a friend introduced me to a senior-looking lawyer. He was a Malay man in his late 50s or early 60s. He was a former prosecuting officer (PO) who now swung for the defence. He was not a deputy public prosecutor (DPP). Back then, police officers with the rank of Inspector could and would carry out prosecutions in the …
May it please your Lordship, Fahri Azzat for the Petitioner, Hoe Sue Lu. My distinguished learned friends for the Bar, the Kuala Lumpur Bar Committee and the Attorney General’s Chambers were introduced earlier. My Lord, my speech this morning will take about six minutes. There are 3 parts to my speech. The first is an introduction of the Petitioner and how she came to the law. The second is why she is a fit and …
Don’t get me wrong. I think legal awards serve a purpose. To need an extrinsic indicator of success or recognition for their self-esteem is common. Legal awards serve this need. It gives us something to achieve or acquire depending on the legal award one signs up for. It inspires us to do our best, so we are acknowledged as such. To be fair, it is difficult to be driven entirely by the non-recognition of intrinsic …